Capes Off: Confronting The Hidden Crisis Of Black Women’s Struggle With Passive Suicide [Op-Ed]
For Black communities, suicide awareness month means recognizing that the slow neglect of our health has become a silent form of surrender. The post Capes Off: Confronting The Hidden Crisis Of Black Women’s Struggle With Passive Suicide [Op-Ed] appeared first on MadameNoire.
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September marks National Suicide Awareness Month, giving an opportunity to have public conversations about mental health crises and suicide intervention. The most dangerous form of despair in the Black community is often the most invisible and defined by a slow, passive surrender where we simply stop fighting for our own health and survival.
Between 2011 and 2017, the suicide rate for Black girls between the ages of 13 and 19 increased by a staggering 182%. In 2023, suicide became the third leading cause of death for Black youth aged 10 to 24, and between 2018 and 2020 the suicide rate among Black female youth nearly doubled.
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