Black and Blue: On Being Black, Female and Depressed
Category: HEALTHY LIVING
I am tired of keeping quiet about my sadness, energy loss, feelings of worthlessness, and the oversleeping because I am afraid that I will wake up and still be in pain. Silencing our hurt will not heal us. Depression is killing us, more rapidly than we'd like to admit.
By j.n. salters, ContributorBlack feminist writer and PhD candidate, 2014-05-07