Blue Cross/Blue Shield sees “not enough depressed black people” as a problem that has to be fixed. bcbs.com/the-health-of-… 
Maybe white people are over diagnosed?
Japan basically had no cultural recognition of depression as an illness...until Eli Lilly hired cultural anthropologists to design culturally targeted marketing interventions to persuade them to recognize it as such....
True racial progress means universal dependency on therapeutic class/ adoption of psychological jargon: reliance on pharmaceutical industry to sustain sense of well being....
White people more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with major mental illness = evidence of anti-black racism
The black community is much less integrated into the mental health system — but given the outcomes measurable for the group who is more integrated (whites commit suicide at much higher rates), perhaps we have more to fear from the solution than the alleged problem...
There is a decent chance we will both close the black-white depression and suicide gap by getting more blacks to become depressed and commit suicide, while closing the white-black infant mortality rates by getting more white babies to die in childbirth...
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