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Headings: 3 African American Leaders in Mental Health
3 African American Leaders in Mental Health
Mamie Phipps Clark
Maxie Clarence Maultsby, Jr.
Freda C. Lewis-Hall
The Importance of Mental Health in Black America
Improving Mental Health and Striving for a United America

Content: We must do more to help our black communities learn about the truths of mental illness, and widen the availability of treatment options beyond the spectrum of rich and poor. Improving Mental Health and Striving for a United America
Regardless of race and gender, psychiatrists and mental health experts throughout the United States continue to make strides in the industry of psychology and mental health. Yet while our understanding of the human brain and the human mind – two separate disciplines and objects of study, mind you – continues to widen and grow, the fact remains that to the public at large many mental health issues that could be resolved fail to see the treatment they deserve. Mental health in America is a huge issue – but has to be examined within proper context when compared globally. While we spend a comparable amount on mental health treatment versus other developed nations, we continue to be plagued by alarming statistics of depression and anxiety. Partially, the growing statistics have to do with the increased diagnosis of these conditions – we’ve come to better understand what accounts for mental illness, and it’s becoming more obvious that, somehow, we live in a society that is often conducive to bringing about symptoms of mental illness in people with tendencies towards them. It’s not so much that feigning mental illness is “trendy”, or that ra