Description: Can I Get a Witness? is a wake-up call to black women, their families, and the mental-health community on the subject of depression. Although it's the leading cause of mental-health-related deaths, depression is still not an illness that many African Americans -- particularly women -- have been willing to recognize and treat. For the first time in book form, author Julia Boyd explores the links between self-esteem, depression, and women's health, and gives vivid testimony to black women's battle with the "beast." Boyd calls on the down-to-earth voices of her sister circle, popularized in her previous book, In the Company of My Sisters, as a vehicle through which to illustrate a difficult topic. While the sisters discuss, disagree, testify, and "witness" for one another the effects of depression on their lives, Julia Boyd achieves another pioneering book of prescriptive wisdom.

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