African Americans patients account for just 5% of clinical trial participants in the United States and hardly ANY clinical research studies were done that included African Americans. Depression presents very different in African Americans and uniquely different in African American women. I'm constantly reminding Dr Song of this fact ... she's got a doctorate degree but that doesn't mean she knows shit about the African American plight or any psych data because there hardly is any.

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Everything you learn in schools especially anything medical or psychological ... only focuses on white centered data and I find it hard to believe that most people don't even know that. 5% 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 ...

She says things like ... "She's not depressed and doesn't present as depressed but she has a lot of anger and self reports being angry at herself."

And I said ... is this woman Black? And she was like how did you know?

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