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Amanda Knox

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Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

So that's the first thing.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

But I believe that, you know, like my experience with my mom, I remember like it was like when my mom came and said when they said the doctor said what they said.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

I struggled with it because it was like, what is this?

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And my family has a history of mental health challenges.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

My great grandmother died in a mental health institution.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And so back then it was like,

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

They don't know what's wrong with her.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

I think, you know, now I think it was, you know, postpartum and, you know, complicated postpartum of what was happening, but she was in and out.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And I don't know much about her.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And that's been like this thing to try to learn about her.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

But when my mom, like, you know, I was very, I had friends, very close friends who have

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

had parents that had been diagnosed with mental health disorders.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And so when they said that, and they just so quick to do the meds, which was detrimental to my mom because it wasn't her diagnosis.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

My mother had a mass on her brain, not a mental health disorder.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And so what I would say is that, you know, really finding the health care provider that you can trust that really will dive deep into a diagnosis, but also.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

what will help most.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And I'll also say that I recently started to look into more natural, holistic, started learning about psilocybin treatment and reading more about psilocybin, which is the treatment, mushroom treatment, psychedelic mushroom treatment for healing.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

And I had a friend that

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

shared that they had experienced that and shared that it was like four years of therapy as he was going through grief, very traumatic grief.

Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Black Women and the Power of the Group ChatĀ 

So I would say being open to holistic, but really finding that therapist and that medical provider that you trust that will give you the right mix of remedy.