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Terrie M. Williams is a licensed clinical social worker with a BA in psychology and sociology from Brandeis University and an MS in social work from Columbia.
Terrie Williams, author of Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens, on LibraryThing.

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Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting

Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows because she's one of them.

Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief. For thirty years she kept on her game face of success, exhausting herself daily to satisfy her clients' needs while neglecting her own.

Terrie finally collapsed, staying in bed for days. She had no clue what was wrong or if there was a way out. She had hit rock bottom and she needed and got help.

She learned her problem had a name -- depression -- and that many suffered from it, limping through their days, hiding their hurt. As she healed, her mission became clear: break the silence of this crippling taboo and help those who suffer.

Black Pain identifies emotional pain -- which uniquely and profoundly affects the Black experience -- as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcoho

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Black Pain (English, Paperback, Williams Terrie M.)

Black people are dying everywhere we turn, in the faces we see and the headlines we read, and we feel emotional pain, but we don't know how to tackle it-it's time to recognize it and work through our trauma. Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief. For thirty years she kept on her game face of success, exhausting herself daily to satisfy her clients' needs while neglecting her own. When she finally collapsed, she had no clue what was wrong or if there was a way out. She learned her problem had a name-depression-and that many suffered from it, limping through their days, hiding their hurt. As she healed, her mission became clear: break the silence of this crippling taboo and help those who suffer, especially in the black community. Black Pain identifies emotional pain-which uniquely and profoundly affects the black experience-as the root of lashing out through de

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About the Author

Terrie Williams is the president of The Terrie Williams Agency, and founder of The Stay Strong Foundation, a youth organization. She lives in New York City

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The message isn't a bad one; the author uses a lot of cliches, but if her audience is mainly teens, they might be hearing them for the first time. (And of course, cliches are cliches for a reason...) She attempts to reach out to teens in their own language (well, the language of 2001); it's a decent result. She name-drops constantly, but that may be effective, even necessary; a random author without a show more platform or any cultural weight probably wouldn't have been published in the first place.

This is superficial, but I found the design of the book to be glaringly awful - especially the bold sans-serif font on a middle-gray background for block