Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
Autor Terrie Williamsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2008
Terrie finally collapsed, staying in bed for days. She had no clue what was wrong or if there was a way out. She had hit rock bottom and she needed and got help.
She learned her problem had a name -- depression -- and that many suffered from it, limping through their days, hiding their hurt. As she healed, her mission became clear: break the silence of this crippling taboo and help those who suffer.
Black Pain identifies emotional pain -- which uniquely and profoundly affects the Black experience -- as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, workaholism, and addiction to shopping, gambling, and sex. Few realize these destructive acts are symptoms of our inner sorrow.
Black people are dying. Everywhere we turn, in the faces we see and the headlines we read, we feel in our gut that something is wrong, but we don't know what it is. It's time to recognize it and work through our trauma.
In Black Pain, Terrie has inspired the famous and the ordinary to speak out and mental health professionals to offer solutions. The book is a mirror turned on you. Do you see yourself and your loved ones here? Do the descriptions of how the pain looks, feels, and sounds seem far too familiar? Now you can do something about it.
Stop suffering. The help the community needs is here: a clear explanation of our troubles and a guide to finding relief through faith, therapy, diet, and exercise, as well as through building a supportive network (and eliminating toxic people).
Black Pain encourages us to face the truth about the issue that plunges our spirits into darkness, so that we can step into the healing light.
You are not on the ledge alone.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780743298834
ISBN-10: 0743298837
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Scribner
ISBN-10: 0743298837
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Scribner
Descriere
Williams examines depression in black Americans from a 360-degree perspective, including her own candid, heartfelt chronicle of her lifelong struggle with the disease as well as other profound stories of great suffering and inspirational healing from all walks of life.