By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Words can cause pain and have been weaponized in relation to mental illness, with some harmful terms like "retard", "spaz", "psycho", "loony", "touched", "not right", and "on the spectrum" being used to describe people with mental illness.
Sacramento County's Health and Racial Equity Unit is making progress in addressing systemic disparities in communities of color, including mental health needs for Black men.
By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Mental health provider Bryant Howard takes mental health days to decompress and uses physical activity, self-care activities, and household tasks to help him deal with stress.