Illnesses/Disorders
Africentric Elements
Celebrities
T.R.I.O.S
100

Develops after an individual has experienced exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.

PTSD

100

the extension beyond the local regions where traumatic events occur and people in other regions are indirectly affected or exposed through media coverage.

“Spillover effect

100

Deals with social anxiety but the public constantly dismisses their disorder 

Summer Walker

100

T-

 a special notion of time  

200

 A condition characterized by loss of interest in activities and depressed mood which leads to significant impairments in how a person is able to function.

Major depressive disorder

200

Created a diagnostic system to conceptualize both normal and abnormal african personality 

Azibo and Akbar 

200

Depression and feelings of inadequacy have followed her since childhood. "I wasn't happy with the way I looked. For most of my life, that lack of happiness followed me,"  ( Singer)

Janet Jackson
200

R

a unique disposition of rhythm

300

Excessive amount of worry, making work,school,personal health and other social interaction difficult 

Generalized anxiety disorder
300

 exclusion from health, educational, social and economic resources. These disparities may contribute to worse mental health outcomes.

socioeconomic disparities

300

opened up about her mental health struggles on her show, including a brief period in her 20s when she considered herself “extremely suicidal. overcame depression, but reveals that a lot of the healing came from “uprooting some false beliefs”

Jada Pinkett Smith

300

I

high quality capacity for improvisation

400

inadequate treatment and lack of cultural competence by health professionals

Distrust and misdiagnosis

400

"I been meditating since I was seventeen years old. That helps with anxiety, depression, all them things. It wasn’t doing it all the way for this, so I knew this required some special attention

Big Sean

400
O

O - general proclivity to orality

500

 theory of behavior incorporating African cultural foundations, evolution, adaptations, and transformations in the diaspora context of African american life.

 TRIOS

500

Has a bipolar disorder,history of manic episodes his rise and decline in mental health has been very public for years.


Kanye West

500
s-

 - a profound sense of spirituality