Black and bipolar: meet the people working to reduce stigma around mental illness in the Black community
By Mylika Scatliffe, AFRO Women’s Health Writer Noah Dyson is 23 years old, Black, and living with bipolar disorder. Attitudes about mood disorders and mental illness are slowly improving, but even today there is still stigma. “I hate the word ‘crazy,’” said Dyson. “It’s dismissive of a person’s experience. You don’t know what trauma has