considered an actual mental disorder even though it is “one of the most widely discussed mental health problems in today’s society.”
So what does that mean for black millennials, one of the most overworked and underpaid generations in recent decades?
In journalist Reniqua Allen’s new book, It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America, she explains, “I wanted to explore what the world looks like to young Black Americans and what aspiration and mobility means to us. I decided to focus on Black millennials because our experiences are different, the stakes higher, and the challenges unique. Yet so many don’t understand our plight.”
Allen adds that “43 percent of all American millennials are non-White. But the discussion about millennials and their ideas of ‘success’ are often deeply rooted in the experiences of privileged White men and women — think more Lena Dunham than Issa Rae.”
Often, we have to live up to the adage, “we have to work twice as hard to get half as much.”
Therapists who see patients of color with reported feelings attributed to