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As a college senior, Dacari Middlebrooks got a dreadful call. His best friend had been murdered.
This led to three years of violent nightmares when finally, one of his seminary professors suggested therapy. Middlebrooks rejected the advice flat-out. I said, I appreciate your suggestion but black people don t go to counseling we just pray about it, he told CBN News.
Middlebrooks is part of a growing number of Americans suffering from mental health issues.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports that one in five adults experience some type of mental illness every year.
Despite Middlebrook s initial resistance, he eventually made his way to a therapist and it changed his life.