The hip hop and healing combination is back! We will continue our conversation with B. Russ about empowering mental health in creative ways. Let’s break the stigma!
-- Highlights from the conversation:
B. RUSS
● Rap artist and mental health advocate
● His goal is to make content to normalize mental health for everyone, especially for black men who tend to feel alienated or alone in this subject.
● He shares his journey to inspire people to take action.
CURRENT CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
● Millennials grew up in an environment with a lot of stigma surrounding depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses. There’s a difference with Gen Z, that started having these conversations more explicitly and earlier.
● Social media has a role with enabling conversations about topics that were considered taboo. Stories are shared, points of view and advice are given, communities are formed.
● Structures are taking place, and now as a society we are more aware of issues that were invisible not so long ago,such as the struggle of being a woman, or black. People are getting to know definitions, mindsets, and realities beyond their privilege and judgements.
● With the sharing of information, people are taking mental health and mental illnesses more seriously. There was a detachment due to not being able to sympathize with vague concepts such as a “panic attack”, which wasn’t considered as the same level as ‘diabetes’ or ‘heart attack’.
● Black men face some issues when opening up to their vulnerability. First, they were taught to deal with emotional hardships by downplaying them, because there’s the belief that “men have more important stuff to deal with” such as paying debts, putting food on the table, giving your kids an education, etc.
● We all do the best we can with the resources that we have, and we are in a position in which we can break the cycle of “toughing it out” and accept that we are not perfect, that sometimes we need help, and that it’s ok.
● It’s important to remember that we may all be struggling with something. Try to be as kind as possible with those around you, even if they are not so much. If you can help someone, do it. If you can sit and listen to someone, do it. That may be the difference that pushes them to break the “I don’t need help” cycle for themselves.
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Social Media
Instagram handle
https://www.instagram.com/therealbruss/
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Hosted by: Dr. Maiysha Clairborne
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