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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8527008996073
EAN num: 9780743298827
ISBN number: 0743298829
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: January 08, 2008
Publishing house: Scribner
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Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows because she's one of them.
Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief. For thirty years she kept on her game face of success, exhausting herself daily to satisfy her clients' needs while neglecting her own.
Terrie finally collapsed, staying in bed for days. She had no clue what was wrong or if there was a way out. She had hit rock bottom and she needed and got help.
She learned her problem had a name -- depression -- and that many suffered from it, limping through their days, hiding their hurt. As she healed, her mission became clear: break the silence of this crippling taboo and help those who suffer.
Black Pain identifies emotional pain -- which uniquely and profoundly affects the Black experience -- as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, workaholism, and addiction to shopping, gambling, and sex. Few realize these destructive acts are symptoms of our inner sorrow.
Black people are dying. Everywhere we turn, in the faces we see and the headlines we read, we feel in our gut that something is wrong, but we don't know what it is. It's time to recognize it and work through our trauma.
In Black Pain, Terrie has inspired the famous and the ordinary to speak out and mental health professionals to offer solutions. The book is a mirror turned on you. Do you see yourself and your loved ones here? Do the descriptions of how the pain looks, feels, and sounds seem far too familiar? Now you can do something about it.
Stop suffering. The help the community needs is here: a clear explanation of our troubles and a guide to finding relief through faith, therapy, diet, and exercise, as well as through building a supportive network (and eliminating toxic people).
Black Pain encourages us to face the truth about the issue that plunges our spirits into darkness, so that we can step into the healing light.
You are not on the ledge alone.
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If you want to enter a grey hole of hopelessness, despair and grief, read this book. It is an absolute orgy of the most horrifying, depressing anecdotes imaginable. Imagine if a person wanted to cure himself of prejudice or hatred and immersed himself in a book about lynching, genocides, white supremacy, the KKK, Darfur, Rwanda, you name it -- from the perspective of the haters -- that's what you get in this book. Heavens!
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This book is excellent and can start the much needed tidal wave to wash away the stigma that is too often attached to Depression and other mental and emotional illnesses. Even though this book focuses on Blacks, it is needed in all of the communities in this country! There are too many lives wasted and too much pain needlessly endured because of shame and lack of education on the issue. Please give this book as gifts so that it reaches a broad market- even to medical practitioners.
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Reading Black Pain reminded me of a meeting between Tagore and
Einstein. It is said that the scientist talked like an artist and the
artist talked like a scientist. More recently there is now a movement
to integrate science and art into unified subjects. Those looking to
achieving this goal should study Black Pain to learn what a unified
art/science subject reads like. I could not make out whether this is
a scientific study of depression in the grey community or an
artistic description of it.
I achieved unexpected self knowledge of my own depression. This
gift from heaven is not just a profound experience it enabled me to
go into the nooks and crannies of my own mind releasing tensions I
did not even know existed. Having grown up on the notion, 'Men don't
cry' I could not stop crying for several hours. I never felt so light
in my life.
This book is therapy. This book is not just pure knowledge on
depression in the grey community this book describes aptly
depression in all underprivileged communities around the world. Black
Pain should be translated into every language and should be a part of
the cirriculum in schools around the world.
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The truth will set you free. We hear the words. But we don't internalize, or even believe, the words.
Black Pain is the truth. And Terrie M. Williams knows and speaks the truth. Her resulting freedom allows her to connect with the hearts and minds of anyone open to her words.
Severe depression caused me to lose my great job about a year ago. I was absolutely crushed. I lost myself and my purpose. I completely lost contact with the outside world.
For over 1 year, I have been holed up in my bedroom. Laying in my bed, day after day, only rising for the necessities. Refusing to answer the door and phone. Giving up on life, an unwillingness to face reality, and consistently considering suicide.
Then I picked up Black Pain. The words began to wake me up. The more I read, the more strength I gained. I learned that I am not alone. My pain is real. But I can heal. And I will heal. And this process starts now for me.
I wholeheartedly endorse Black Pain and congratulate Terrie M. Williams for this monumental work. Black Pain is a healing road map for you personally and for our community. The truth...too many of us are dying every day. We must recognize our pain and get serious about our own healing.
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I bought this book to read as part of a book club I joined. I had no say on the book, someone decided this is what we should read and so I purchased it. The information is good if you don't know anything about depression or if you think you might be depressed and are not sure of the signs or how to diagnose the possibility of being depressed.
The book does focus on the grey community and how they repress this condition as nothing more than an "excuse", and hide behind their own pain, so it's a good book to shed light on the reality of the disorder in the grey community, but it's not applicable to me as a Latina, since I know the basics from taking psychology in school. (I hope this doesn't sound prejudice because it's not my intent)
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