I'm depressed too nikka but I can't let that stop me
Our sisters hurting
Our kids are hurting
Black men, vulnerability and depression.
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Our sisters hurting
Our kids are hurting
I never said stopping or give up. I just want a better understanding between our people is all. Trust I'll never quit and I'm a firm believer in protecting black woman and children. But I also realise that we need healthy black men to be the leaders we're supposed to be. How can the head lead when it is sick?I'm depressed too nikka but I can't let that stop me
Our sisters hurting
Our kids are hurting
GreenGrass
All Star
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does it make a difference? what if she was white, would you be more open or less open ?
GreenGhxst
Veteran
I used to really struggle with vulnerability and showing emotions, but I really don't give a fukk anymore. I'm a human and if someone wants to try me because I'm showing emotion these hands ready.
I do have depression sometimes, but I find working out and getting out of my head really helps me with that. But shyt is still tough, I constantly have to push myself through the depression, weed helps but usually it feels more like a band aid. When I stop smoking reality hits me like a ton of bricks, which is why I try not to smoke unless I'm really depressed.
I do have depression sometimes, but I find working out and getting out of my head really helps me with that. But shyt is still tough, I constantly have to push myself through the depression, weed helps but usually it feels more like a band aid. When I stop smoking reality hits me like a ton of bricks, which is why I try not to smoke unless I'm really depressed.
OT: But it actually does. Plenty of studies show there is an empathy gap when Black people are serviced by non-Black therapist and really any profession such as doctors and teachers. Who better to understand your perspective than someone who is dealing with the same system of White supremacy?
does it make a difference? what if she was white, would you be more open or less open ?[/QUOTE]
Less. Definitely less.
Less. Definitely less.
PhonZhi
Veteran
does it make a difference? what if she was white, would you be more open or less open ?[/QUOTE]
Wtf?
Wtf?
Facts bI used to really struggle with vulnerability and showing emotions, but I really don't give a fukk anymore. I'm a human and if someone wants to try me because I'm showing emotion these hands ready.
I do have depression sometimes, but I find working out and getting out of my head really helps me with that. But shyt is still tough, I constantly have to push myself through the depression, weed helps but usually it feels more like a band aid. When I stop smoking reality hits me like a ton of bricks, which is why I try not to smoke unless I'm really depressed.
Ye I'm emotional but I can still fight
I'll knock a fool out
GreenGhxst
Veteran
to me most of the pain lies because nobody really cares, it can't be healthy to constantly have to struggle keeping depressive thoughts out of your head
if the majority of society showed more empathy shyt wouldn't be so bad, it's like you against the world being a black man, but that's why I keep pushing
GreenGrass
All Star
this post makes so much sense. i hate dealing with white people especially when it comes down to mental health related issues.
yardman
Afro-pessimist
Vulnerabilities are apart of being human. We have been stripped of our humanity. We have to be perfect because we're vulnerable at damn near every turn. Our fukks up get blown out of proportion, even when we don't fukk up other groups have the discretion to discern whether or not we fukked up.
Double consciousness is easily one of the facets of being black that I hate the most.
Double consciousness is easily one of the facets of being black that I hate the most.
Absolute truth. I dealt with a lot of depression and self-hatred when I was younger. As I got more knowledgeable and observant about why I hated myself, it had two-fold effect. I love myself more but it also hurts even more because you realize how much you feel hated by everyone else out there.
It's like black men are held to impossible standards and put into no-win situations while also being shytted on for being in those situations. Our triumphs are minimized and erased or even warped to celebrate other groups.
It's like black men are held to impossible standards and put into no-win situations while also being shytted on for being in those situations. Our triumphs are minimized and erased or even warped to celebrate other groups.
For those that have "given up" on the black community...you fukked up trying to juggle the entire black communities problems. That defeat comes along with something that you just can't do...you can't 'fix' black people. What you can do is fortify yourself, become a formidable individual and then hip the next man to your formula...then tell him to hip somebody else, then hip somebody else...I understand the urge to want to do something to fix your people but while you sitting there trying to solve that 5,000 piece puzzle you could have been working on you...you could have built something that could offer a job to black man. Always keep what you can do/how you can give back in mind but get yours. That isn't your burden to shoulder...being black should not be a burden. I think if we kinda get out of that mentality it would ease some of the pressure so smarter decisions can be made, pathways to freedom can be discovered, but it's gonna be hard to find those pathways with the weight of the entire black diaspora on your shoulders.
Give up on the 'burden' of blackness, not black people, definitely not yourself.
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