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Re: August Book Club: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by E. Lynn Harris
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Originally posted by ClassyLady
Throughout this memoir, Harris writes of his recurrent bouts of depression. Harris writes "I began to wonder if depression ran in my family. Did my mother and grandmother do what many other blacks with depression do - simply ignore it?" (Page 5, Hardback version). Why has depression, and mental health as a whole, been so overwhelmingly ignored by our community? Could the high incidences of alcoholism and substance abuse within our community be a result of ignored depression? Why are non-spiritual forms of therapy so taboo?
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OUTSTANDING way to kick off the discussion. 
**still tired, give me a day or two to be resume my Chatty Cathy status** 
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