Black Women, Anxiety
and Depression:
Why do Black Women not seek Professional help?
Neneh Bojang - Project Leader, Pawa
Black female Self recovery is an expression of a
liberatory Political Practice. Choosing wellness is an act of
political Resistance. Black women In Norway need to undergo a
process of self- recovery that can heal individual and collective
wounds that may prevent them from functioning
fully.
Traditional therapy, mainstream psychoanalytical
practice, often does not consider race as an important issue nor
the barriers black women face in their perceptions of themselves
and as a result do not adequately address the mental health
dilemmas and needs of black women.
It
is important that Black Women talk to one another and that we also
talk to friends and allies for the telling of our stories enables
us to name our suffering and to seek healing.
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