Name: If You Don’t Know, Now You Know: Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community | The Daily Show
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to benefit from therapy more than black people.

even as therapy has become more mainstream,

WOMAN: It's hard enough to get mental health treatment

to receive mental health treatment than whites.

WOMAN 2: Black and Hispanic children are less likely

to get mental health care than white kids.

in the average white teenager is often labeled as depression.

That same behavior is more likely to be seen as disruptive

in black or Latino children, and doctors say

that can lead to feelings of hopelessness

many black people don't get the proper treatment

What is seen as depression in white people can be seen

This kind of thing happens in medicine all the time.

It's like, when a black person has a seizure,

but when a white person does it, it's called dancing.

...even when black people are properly diagnosed

with mental health issues, it can still be a challenge

to find a therapist who's equipped to handle their needs.

Today, only four percent of psychologists are black.

MAN: Kevin Darden says admitting he needed help

but felt that none of them understood the stress

WOMAN: When Taraji P. Henson's own son Marcell was struggling,

she found it nearly impossible to find him one.

Trying to find a culturally-competent therapist

for black people to find a black therapist.

And it's been like this for a very, very long time.

I mean, that's why Martin Luther King, Jr.

was always describing his dreams to huge crowds.

You know, it's just like, "I had another dream

"that I'm being chased by bears in my underwear!

You may think that a therapist's race shouldn't matter at all,

and that's true, but if you think about it,

For many white therapists, no matter how good they are,

it can be hard to understand the particular experiences

Just sitting there in a session, even if they are trying,

it could be like, "So you say people are following you

"and you're invisible, but only to taxi drivers?

and find a therapist who can relate to them.

there's another major hurdle stopping black people

and it comes from the black community itself.

when it comes to dealing with mental health.

WOMAN: Black students say, where they come from,

it's shameful to talk about anxiety, depression and trauma.

MAN: It's not okay to have mental health issues, or, like,

I've-I've heard all the time. Black men don't go to therapy.

I told my own mother that I was seeing a therapist,

and she said, "You don't need to see a therapist.

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