Effects Of Depression On African American Community

Why was the Great Depression such a hard time for Americans? In 1929 the stock market crashed in America. Which resulted in massive amounts of disarray, and caused Nine Thousand U.S. Banks to Fail. During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, African Americans were hit the hardest by the scarcity of jobs and money. During the Great Depression almost all of the blacks were fired from their jobs and had no way to sustain themselves or their families due to the loss of food and money. After being fired it was nearly impossible for them to get another job, and if they did happen to be hired they received almost no pay. John Hardman wrote, “The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already black economic situation of black Americans. African

A survey was conducted by Sherrill L. Sellers (Miami University of Ohio), Harold W. Neighbors, (University of Michigan), and Vence L. Bonham (Michigan State University) in order to address the interaction between goal-oriented stress and overall well being in 399 college-educated African American associated with a historically black national fraternal organization all over the world. Mental health of African American male populations is poorly understood due to unique social, racial, and psychological variables. Although many black men deem success possible, a great number identify resistance to success in the form of prejudice, discrimination, and minimal opportunities in comparison with their white counterpart.

Depression and anxiety could have a major effect on the physical body. It is critical to find an effective way to decrease the amount of depression in African American communities in order for a quick recovery and remission. There are a few options for women with depression in terms of treatment. There are many different types of medication that could be used to to fight the depression or one could use therapy. Therapy heals certain problems that a patient may have that caused the depression. More funding to the study of African American women with depression may lead to more discoveries for the different types of

Mental illness is an increasing problem in America. Currently about 26.2% of Americans suffer from a mental disorder. A mental illness/disorder is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others and daily functions. Mental illness can affect humans of any age, race, gender and socioeconomic status. However the care that is needed to effectively cure and help the people affected by the illness is not equal for everyone here in American, especially for African Americans.

At the individual level, lack of proper treatment for poor mental health and mental illness has a detrimental effect. At a population level, society also suffers from the burden resulting from the lack of treatment options for poor mental health and mental illness, due to loss of productivity from those crippled by poor mental health and mental illness. Evidence has begun to emerge showing that lack of treatment for mental illness -specifically depressive disorders - has been linked “with increased prevalence of chronic diseases.” Currently it is estimated about 26% of adults in the United States suffer from depression.

“Recent data estimate the overall prevalence of depression at about 11.1% of the American population, or nearly 35 million individuals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). A predictive models suggest that up to 50% of the population will experience at least one episode of depression during their lives” (Life Extension, 2014). Depression has negatively affected the lives of many individuals throughout the world. Look around you there may even be someone close to you that is demonstrating signs of its stifling affects. Depression does not discriminate with its suffocating

In this study the researchers target low income African American women. The way that they participates were selected was by the clinic that they received their

Gibb and Chelminski (2007) examined childhood emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and the diagnoses of depressive and anxiety disorders in adult psychiatric outpatients. Research showed that major depression are strongly related to the reports of childhood emotional abuse than to physical or sexual abuse. According to Rose and Abramson [1992] “The experiences of childhood emotional abuse, the children may begin to make more negative attributions, which then may develop into a more general negative attributional style that would contribute vulnerability to depression”.

Considering the Civil War was the first time that a large group of people were fighting for the freedom of African Americans, it would be true to state that the Civil War dramatically changed the lives of African Americans throughout the nation. This remark is accurate because, after the Union’s win, African Americans were given basic rights such as the right to vote, own property, and marry whites. However, because many Southerners continued to oppose these decisions, they created organizations such as the KKK that opposed these ideas and threatened the well being of African Americans. So, as a result of the African American lifestyle changing, many individuals in the South, mostly slave owners, lives change due to the major decrease in free-labor.

According to African American population, women are the care givers and they are responsible in taking care of the family and over involve in keeping the family intact. The African American women are the ones that are affected by the negatives that the others, may be be-cause of lower educational levels, poverty or inequality. Women are found to be more depressed than the men. The depression will make the women unhealthy and physically weak. One of the im-portant factor may be during the childbearing stage due to lack of support and economic status. Some research study indicates that the child’s weakness may induce maternal depression. The three factors governing includes increased stress, weak health of

I chose to respond to your post, first to encourage you and secondly to stand with you. I too suffered from depression and understand the fight to maintain affairs in perspective. As an African American female it is shunned upon to admit to seeking psychiatric care. While at the same time, people notice you are different and withdrawn. The expectation of my culture to remain strong at all times, throughout any circumstance is overrated and tiring. One can only do and take on so much before a breaking point and, yes, I reached mine. Here is a passage from our text I lived. Nevid (2015) cites, “Latinos and African Americans are less likely than other ethnic groups in the U.S. to receive appropriate care for depression” (p. 504). Additionally,

Furthermore, depression is so widespread and heritable and it comes with a high cost for survival and reproduction

In American society, although there has been a push racial equality in recent decades, there is still an underlying racial inequality in health. African American women in the United States are more likely to give birth to underweight and premature babies than any other ethnic group. Even black women with high levels of education, job security and above average incomes are susceptible to the menacing glances of their white counterparts. The anxiety of being black in this society increases the cortisol

Studies today indicate that people are experiencing higher bouts of depression than in the 18thand 19th century when work and life was considered more difficult.

The participants in the study were racial minority undergraduates screened through a psychology participant pool questionnaire, Patient Health Questionaire-9 (PHQ-9). 100 racial minority undergraduates with elevated depression were pulled from the questionnaire. Among the 100 participants, there was 45% male and 55% female with the average age being around 19. The college undergraduates ranged from freshman to seniors with, 67% freshman, 20% Sophomores, 10% Juniors, and 3% Seniors. Among the college students, the majority were African-American at 85%, Asian 10%, and the rest 5%. If you notice the majority totals for the subcategories of the population, there was an elevated depression between African American Freshman Females.