General Article These black women felt excluded by mainstream mental health charities ...

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...  -so they started their own

By Victoria Sanusi

Two young black women in London found themselves feeling so excluded from mainstream mental health charities that they decided to create one, while dealing with mental health problems of their own.

According to the Mental Health Foundation, black and minority ethnic groups living in the UK are more likely to be diagnosed with mental health problems and more likely to experience a poor outcome from treatment.

Young black people aren’t being en...

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