Mental health conditions of African Americans have high numbers that are strongly associated with poverty levels affecting many communities. Mental illness can sometimes be hard to detect. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness ½ of all chronical mental illness begins by the age of 14 and ¾ by the age 24. But even with treatment there is still considered to be a delay that can be over years between the first appearance of symptoms and when people get help. Mental illness for African Americans is a serious matter, but yet there are not a lot of things that are addressed. In the following pages there will be insight on African Americans and their mental
Mental health conditions of African Americans have high numbers that are strongly associated with poverty levels affecting many communities. Mental illness can sometimes be hard to detect. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness ½ of all chronical mental illness begins by the age of 14 and ¾ by the age 24. But even with treatment there is still considered to be a delay that can be over years between the first appearance of symptoms and when people get help. Mental illness for African Americans is a serious matter, but yet there are not a lot of things that are addressed. In the following pages there will be insight on African Americans and their mental