![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the reason we are in such deep pain. And if we let it out, we hurt and kill self-medicate through drugs, alcohol, food, and sex we gamble we work 24-7. If there’s no one to talk to then we just hold that rage in and it becomes illness, disease. That stuff sits inside and turns into rage if there’s nowhere to go with it. So we’re full of all of that, and there’s never been a release. We have inherited the pain and secrets of our parents and our ancestors that were just never spoken about. We are full of childhood emotional wounds, scars, and experiences. Because of the taboo in our community, everyone wears the game face and can’t dare show a kink in the armor, so we don’t really know. I also wanted us to be aware of what our pain looks like, literally: what it looks like, what it sounds like, what it feels like so that if you or your loved ones or your colleagues approach these symptoms, you would have an idea of what you’re dealing with. So many of us are floundering and we don’t know where to go, we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how we got there. I really wanted people to know they were not alone–that they were not standing on that ledge by themselves. Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. In your book, you share not only your personal journey but the stories of others. Black people are dying everywhere we turn, in the faces we see and the headlines we read, and we feel emotional pain, but we dont know how to tackle itits time to recognize it and work through our trauma. I feel like I lost months, years of my life, but I am better for it. I am a much more compassionate person, because now I know what depression means. It’s just that our trials and our tribulations tell us to whom we must turn. How have you been impacted by your bouts with depression? ![]()
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