Healing time: the blues and African-American women

Health Care Women Int. 1994 Jan-Feb;15(1):53-60. doi: 10.1080/07399339409516094.

Abstract

In-depth interviews with 15 African-American women reveal that their ideas about and experiences with dysphoria differ markedly from mental health professionals' notion of dysphoria as a pathological state. For these women, the blues is both a transition mood between feeling down and depression and a signal that they need time for themselves.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological*
  • Adult
  • Affect
  • Anthropology, Cultural
  • Black or African American / psychology*
  • Depression / ethnology*
  • Depression / prevention & control
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Self Care / methods
  • Self Care / psychology*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Women / psychology*