I Refuse to Label My “Crazy”: The Cost of Being Brown and Poor

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Brown people and poor people don’t diagnose problems. We just don’t. Many of us weren’t taught to see personality and behavior problems as clinical issues that deserved a formal label and a prescription drug regimen. Mood and personality disorders are “rich people problems”, and since poverty is historically embedded in the black and brown community’s history in America, we just…