Racism's Mental Toll May Explain Some Health Disparities

There will always be disagreements by people of different backgrounds because they are uncomfortable with their present situations. Some people want to free load because they feel it is their right. These people are the real slaves. They have perpetuated their existence like that for so long, it is a career for some of them to live like that. People who have earned what they have from their own accomplishments are resentful to the people who don't earn their existence. People will point fingers and make excuses for their shortcomings and not really look and see that the problem is really themselves and their misguided attempt at what they call life. People need to examine what they feel makes them happy and why it makes them happy. Some things people feel they need to have are nothing but status symbols of their society. Why is it so important to feel bigger than your neighbor because you can draw more attention to yourself because of what you have. These things only make somebody with less only want what is yours for little or no effort, which brings us back to reasons why you hate your neighbor. It is a never ending cycle.If you think you are living in oppression and can't do anything about it, you have given up. You can make your self heard when you want to, but when it is time to invest your own time and work into something greater than yourself, that is something to be seen. We will be our own undoing. I never mentioned any race either. Until we can all find common ground to see eye to eye, there will always be disagreements.

Gibs me dat.

I don't get why this story is so controversial, except for the trolls, of course. Isn't it obvious that being bullied growing up, whether it is racism or because you are fat or you are not very smart, or too smart etc - isn't it obvious that will increase the chance of depression? And it's known depression can ruin your physical health too. Just because some people can get over these experiences does not mean that all are able to do so. Some people have better support networks than others. and personality varies.

Its the RACE CARD...throw it away its TOXIC. No other race is carrying it.

so,how did the Irish,Italians and other immigrants cope so well during the wave of immigration in the 1800's and early 1900's,when racism from the Wasp establishment was rampant and not against the law like it is today?

Also those hypertension has a lot to do with poor diet not racism

Is this for real?? Any negative thought, repeated over and over will have an adverse affect on anyone's health regardless of their color or cause of the thought.

"Racism is similar to trauma in how it affects the mental health of black adults in the United States, a new analysis finds."
I think racism traumatizes everyone who experiences it.

"The researchers suggested that the link between mental health and racism could contribute to physical health disparities between blacks and other Americans of different races and ethnicities."
What would make black people suffer more from the effects than others?

Maybe one day we will smart enough not to do this to ourselves. Make no mistake it is very hard to hurt another without damaging yourself.

How about lifestyles? Explain the ratio of VD?

White Men are the most discriminated against group now. Just watch Commercials.

They need to look in the freakin mirror. Some of the most racist people ive seen. The article needs to mention that maybe they are stressing themselves out with their own hatred. Plenty of it...Doesnt matter what anyone denies the truth is the truth.

Well I guess that victims of black racism are the portrait of health and total mental stability. What a bunch of academic garbage.

Blacks themselves are incredibly racist. Not all ofcourse, but as a group they are just as or more racist than other groups! Will be nice once the black community is no longer made a victim, and actually accepts resposibility for its own members actions for once! Not everything bad in the black community can be pawned off on someone else!

perceived racism is not actual racism. mentally unstable nuts who think the world is out to get them will naturally have higher stress.

Must be a slow news day...When the media isn't trying to start a class war, they shift to race...Nothing to see here folks.

The ONLY place you will here the "n" word on TV is from a black person. My children never heard that word until they heard it from a black person on TV. No black person calls out another for using that word. They rationalize it and say that black people are the only ones allowed to use it. If black people want to stop the cycle, THEY have to be a part of the solution. Use of the N word is only a part of the problem. But it illustrates how racism is not the fault of just one race.

When will they do the study to see how whites are effected by racism perpetrated by Hispanics? I walked off my last job and was able to draw unemployment because I was considered to be justified in leaving due to racism, harassment, and a hostile working environment. The Mexicans supervisors were allowed to run roughshod over the non-Hispanic employees and they had two very different sets of rules depending upon whether or not you spoke Spanish.

These data should be cross-checked with data about West Africans - West Africa being the region of origin of the ancestors of most former slaves. Senegalese friends have told me that heart disease and hypertension are very common in their part of the world.

I agree that being discriminated against can lead to worse mental health. But to say that such large disparities are due to internalizing racism sounds like some researcher is just trying to keep their grant funding and look important.

How about those people, of any color, who are more likely to develop mental illness are more often discriminated against because of their personality? Not every time a white person avoids or is mean to a black person is racism. Sometimes the person on the receiving end was rude first.

When you bring up a subject about blacks and hypertension, when do you get to the part where FOOD and the crap that they consume, come into play?
Which is something that this article does not mention, at all.

Racism can, in this instance, just be a convenient excuse for self-imposed health problems of NOT eating right and NOT getting proper exercise.
I know FAR too many obese black people with all sorts of related health issues, who will LITERALLY, consume all types of low quality, fast food type of garbage and NEVER exercise.

When this is your daily routine, what do you THINK is going to be the result?

They should make these health conscious adjustments, FIRST, before making this a topic for playing THAT card.

It depends on who you ask. More study is needed. #1 killer of young black men is young black men via gun violence. #1 killer of young black women is young black men via HIV. How does race play into these statistics and why do we not address them as such?

Of course its a great money maker for counselors...judges, jails, etc. We have yet to address these facts because they are an inconvenient truth! and the suffering continues.