Nonfiction. Mental health in the African American community.
Deborah Danner. Walter Wallace Jr. Kayla Moore. Their names should be remembered. They should still be alive. Instead, they are gone, killed during crises that often involved struggles with mental health by the very systems that were supposed to help them. They are not alone.
Across America, Black people in crisis related to their mental health face a deadly choice: suffer in silence or risk their lives asking for help.
Drawing from 22 years of military service, 15+ years inside behavioral health systems, and deep roots in the African American community, retired U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Wayne A. Ince delivers an unflinching examination of a crisis that is killing us, and a roadmap for survival and change. The book traces the distrust from Tuskegee to present-day police shootings of people in crisis, and documents the barriers—financial, geographic, cultural, and systemic—that keep most Black adults from receiving the mental health treatment they may need.
This is not a book of despair. Importantly, it is a battle plan and survival guide for those whose mental health is at stake. https://wp.me/PgOTie-n8
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