[rktman]

It way different than white folk mental health..... SMDH!?

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Yes, some communities have more stigma about seeking out psychiatric care in the medical system.

[BillyBoy]

>> It way different than white folk mental health..... SMDH!? <<

Apparently it must also be radically different if you have mental health problems at a Catholic or Orthodox Christian church, since the article states that they only bothered to survey Black and Latino pastors from different PROTESTANT denominations.

Moral of the story... if you experience mental health problems and seek out a pastor for help, make SURE you're either a white protestant OR a black/Hispanic Catholic OR a black/Hispanic Orthodox Christian, I guess. OTHERWISE, your pastor will be "ill equipped" to deal with that.

Must be FINE if you experience mental health problems at say... a white Presbyterian church in Maine, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Washington D.C., or an overwhelmingly Hispanic Catholic parish in the Texas panhandle...

Bizarre "study".