"The factors that contribute to situational depression are the same ones that young people living in high-risk neighbourhoods face: poverty, especially racialized poverty, lack of opportunity, disenfranchisement, police harassment, racial discrimination, generalized suspicion directed at them, repeated exposure to violence. These trauma stressors parallel with living in a war zone where the outcome can be post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)."
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:07:58 +0000
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