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When it comes to mental health in the Black community, we have made progress. The idea of therapy is no longer seen as an invasion of privacy or an admission of insanity. Black people have become more open-minded about therapy, healing past trauma, and honoring and ironing out their feelings. However, let’s be real, we still have a long way to go. For generations, we have been taught to pray it away, tough it out, or keep it to ourselves. The result? A culture where we silence honesty and pain, while shaming healing.

If you ask me, there should be more conversations about depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and trauma because they are all very present in our communities. We do not talk enough about how these struggles show up in our relationships: intimate, co-parenting agreements, friendships, and family. If we think or look back, many of us can recall a relationship with someone fighting invisible battles. You know, those people who mishandled you or made poor choices that just did not make sense and had a negative impact on you, others, or themselves. The battles that they were or should have been ashamed to acknowledge or own, and all while trying to hold everything and everyone together, or destroying everything and everyone in their path. Oftentimes, these mental and emotional health challenges are detrimental in relationships.

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An especially critical point to state is that mental health issues tend to become trending topics when celebrity couples like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West or Keyshia Ka’oir and Gucci Mane are involved. But the truth is, it’s not just them. Many of us have experienced heartache trying to love someone through the storm. It is something many women, particularly Black women, know all too well.

We have watched Kim and Kanye’s relationship burn on Beyoncé’s internet. Now I know a lot of us have a love-hate relationship with the Kardashians, and we’ve seen Kim run through a few men, but Kim and Kanye’s relationship seems like a master class in love, loyalty, and the limits of a woman’s commitment.

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