Not very many of us can afford or can find a good psychologist to talk about these things openly. Here’s a toolkit for #racism & #mentalhealth in workplaces: https://bit.ly/2PdPplL 15/24 #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #AcademicTwitter
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So we learn to repress those experiences from early on & maybe this is passed down. We don’t actually think about how racism affects
#mentalhealth, but it does. Even for us PoC we don’t think about it enough. 16/24#MentalHealthMatters1 reply 3 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
So ppl often tell me or other PoC abt their
#mentalhealth issues as though PoC can’t have mental health issues too. Even getting a proper diagnosis as a Black person or POC is more difficult. Often misdiagnosed or can’t even get one at all. See here: https://medium.com/@realtalkwocandallies/families-of-color-face-challenges-when-seeking-treatment-for-mental-illness-46ddc0cbd938 … 17/242 replies 3 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
#Mentalhealth issues don’t have to be related to#racism for PoC. Like anyone else, they can struggle with#depression or other#mentalhealth issues for any given reason. We are all different. So this brings me to my final point. 18/24#MentalHealthAwareness#MentalHealthMatters1 reply 3 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
Some white people use their mental health issues as an excuse for their own
#racism. Sometimes it is unintentional. Sometimes it is not. Your#mentalhealth issues are not a shield. https://bit.ly/2PBkmzq ##sexism#academiclife 19/24#MentalHealthAwareness1 reply 14 retweets 52 likesShow this thread -
If you struggle with
#mentalhealth you aren’t alone. You aren’t weak. And if you are a PoC who struggles with mental health, white colleagues need to be more supportive because awareness of PoC who struggle is most definitely not something on people’s radars enough. 20/241 reply 4 retweets 29 likesShow this thread -
We can’t fix these issues, but we can help each other & prevent the next generation from having these struggles alone. This part IS preventable. Advisors support your grad students. Listen to them. Colleagues support each other. Here are some tips: https://bit.ly/2RKsDnu 21/24
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Some of our struggles are the same. We really need to do more in
#academia to help each other. We go thru our PhDs alone, but we end up in a community or should be. We often maintain that “I” mentality, but we shouldn’t struggle alone. 22/24#AcademicTwitter#MentalHealthMatters2 replies 3 retweets 23 likesShow this thread -
Basically academia isnt doing enough to support its students and staff when it comes to
#mentalhealth. Academia has a crisis and I guess we need to start speaking openly about this issue. 23/24#MentalHealthAwareness#AcademicTwitter1 reply 5 retweets 30 likesShow this thread -
If you have ways that us people (or I) can support my colleagues who struggle with
#mentalhealth let me know.#commit2change 24/24#academicchatter#academictwitter#MentalHealthMatterspic.twitter.com/936AEv34UJ8 replies 5 retweets 34 likesShow this thread
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