'High-functioning depression is scary as f--k because no one knows you're not okay, and even if you say something no one realizes the severity because you don't seem like someone who is falling off the deep end.'
The young age of these figures highlights what Walker, who teaches psychology at the University of Houston and directs the Culture, Risk and Resilience Lab on campus, knows too well from her own work: Black people who die by suicide tend to be younger than white people who do.
“My team has found that race-related stress is related to thoughts of suicide in the Black community,” she explains. “Those individuals ... may've been protected by family, protected in other ways but then went out into the world and saw institutional discrimination and racism ... and it’s like, ‘OK, I’m on my own now. I’m ready to thrive, ready to participate in society.’ But all those goals are ... thwarted. Then at some point, you start to lose hope.
After his last suicide attempt several years ago, Howard saw an ad on Instagram advertising"Free Therapy for Black Men," and it changed his life. He's now on the leadership team for Black Men Heal, the organization that provided him with free therapy. He's in his third year as an undergrad at Drexel University in Philadelphia, and he hosts the"Black Mental Health Podcast," which has been downloaded 150,000 times.
Before Kryst died by suicide, Simpkins says she began paying closer attention to her daughter because she'd talk about some things over and over and wouldn't stop. Simpkins saw it as a sign that something was wrong. In response, Simpkins would simply listen, which she says helped extend her daughter's life.
"He would make hip-hop references, he would make TV show references, he would make certain culturally competent references that made me resonate with the therapeutic information that he was sharing with me," Howard explains.
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