August Book Club: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by E. Lynn Harris
First, let me say how excited I am to be the discussion leader for the first "meeting" of the GC Book Club. I really read the book critically to try to find some interesting topics of discussion for us. If anyone has their own questions or points to present to the group, please feel free. Without any further ado, let's get started.
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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