Victor's Journey: Mental Health in Rural Black Communities

We have not given people permission to talk about those challenges, and one of the challenges too, with the faith-based community, is that I know from growing up that in the African-american church it is also very much a male-dominated environment, and where men don't want to talk about things, they don't get talked about, and men were not permitted to talk about being vulnerable, men were not permitted to talk about things that could be characterized as weakness.