(Serious) As black folks, how can we get our families and communities more aware and caring about mental health instead of constantly being trashed and demeaned for it?

I know that many are very religious, so that's almost ensuring this barrier is impossible to overcome. The best way I changed my mom's mind about trans people and LGBTQ+ in general is talking about how happy my sister is now lol. One day she just realized that she covets things, is proud of stuff that's technically a sin, etc and it's hypocritical as fuck to judge people for it. Also doing so is a sin in itself so she just is fine with it now. She still thinks god can heal gays but he's not healing sick little kids or keeping them from dying so it's kind of selfish to expect him to cure gays first. The "all powerful" argument comes up but he's not even curing sick kids so why would he pick one person to "cure" over them? I guess the same goes for mental illness. There are many more deserving of a cure, why bother curing me of my depression? They often just get stuck in a loop of "you're not faithful enough" though. Religion, man.

/r/AskReddit Thread Parent