Can we talk about depression being one of the key reasons young black men kill each other?

[Warren Moon]

A lot of young brehs are deeply depressed. They don’t care about living or dying. They see no future in their lives, they self medicate with substances.

With no care about living they internalize that and sometimes that leads to violence.


These are tell tell signs of depression yet, for some reason society as a whole treats them as bad individuals.

When you’re experiencing depression you do a lot of irrational things.

How do we get young males the mental health help they need? And how do we de stigmatized getting mental health services as being seen as being weak?

 

[Will Ross]

Ego is the main reason

 

[The Fade]

Mental health and ptsd

But they think we do crime for fun

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

PTSD if anything

constantly seeing suffering whether cause of violence or non-violence will do a lot to your mind

there's no way in hell you can function if you seeing stuff on the daily that resembles a warzone

we need resources and access to mental health services. and we need therapists that actually be in the field and understand the trauma that our boys are dealing with

 

[Warren Moon]

PTSD if anything

constantly seeing suffering whether cause of violence or non-violence will do a lot to your mind

there's no way in hell you can function if you seeing stuff on the daily that resembles a warzone

we need resources and access to mental health services. and we need therapists that actually be in the field and understand the trauma that our boys are dealing with

Yeah, we got to have some sort of program helping brehs talk through their issues nationwide.

 

[ThatTruth777]

that's really what it is too

 

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[Taadow]

After we talk about it, then what?

 

[Dr. Acula]

Low self-esteem and low opinion of yourself and community is definitely a major factor with the issues we have in our community. Basically, not giving a fukk about anything is where a lot of people's heads are at when they can shoot another black man in the back of the head and end their life. If you attach no value to life including your own, what stops you from treating it as dispensable?

 

[Warren Moon]

After we talk about it, then what?

shyt Idk. Maybe start a non profit or something. All good deeds start by talking about it to find possible solutions.

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

Well, as far as mental health services go, I believe that if there were more black mental health doctors available to meet up with, more black people (men in this case) wouldn't mind going.

They need somebody who looks like them that can understand their life experiences as being black for comfortability reasons.

Another thing is maybe if there were a sense of actual brotherhood in the community younger men would feel better, I think this is something that'd be best in your local area instead of online.

I say that because at least you'll know who you're taking with, you don't want outsiders (cacs, hispanic, etc) or feminist/wenches bulldozing their way into secretly tryna see what's being said and out of the blue chaos, confusion & feuding starts taking place.

Young black men need to be around men (and men only) to avoid outside noises planting negatives in their heads. That's the only way.

 

[Take It In Blood]

Interesting hypothesis

 

[rabbid]

need something else to bring us joy besides p*ssy and stunting.. once you get it you'll sit there like "now what?" they made us hate ourself and love their wealth smh.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

It's mainly just c00ning tbh

 

[Kuma the Bear]

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