Mental Health Newsletter: Anyone Can Develop A Mental Health Disorder

American Heart Association recommends eating foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids, like salmon, trout, or mackerel, twice weekly, I’d say in case you don’t have coronary artery disease. Consume roughly 1 gram a day of EPA or DHA from oily fish and supplements if your doctor advises this, if you have documented coronary artery disease. In more recent history, the CDC details the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment which did not inform its subjects, 600 blackish men, of the study’s true purpose, and did not provide proper treatment, among other failures.

Whenever speculating that the much of the misplaced hysteria was attributable to involvement of African American males involvement in the civil rights movements of the time, metzl researched Michigan’s Iona State Hospital records and uncovered a disproportionate diagnosis of schizophrenia in African American men throughout the 1960’s and 70’s.

Further support for this barrier of mistrust is explained in Protest Psychosis. That said, how Schizophrenia Became a Black Man’s Disease,, by author and Vanderbilt University Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Jonathan Metzl.

Maitreyi Misra is a Research Officer with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health. She read her LL. Ironically, I am also a staunch advocate of being open about one’s mental illness. It is the first time I’m disclosing my identity in a public forum as a person with mental illness. Oftentimes mental illness does not discriminate. Mostly there’re factors that can increase the vulnerability to and severity of mental health disorders in the African American population and decrease their likelihood of seeking and receiving adequate treatment. Anyone can develop a mental health disorder. Oftentimes one in four Americans will experience a behavioral health disorder in any given year regardless of age, race, religion, gender or economic status.