{"id":952,"date":"2018-12-25T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2023-01-19T00:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:54:37","slug":"combatting-mental-health-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/combatting-mental-health-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Combatting Mental Health Stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lenard McKelvey, known professionally as Charlamagne Tha God, speaks with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show about what he discovered by going to therapy and why it&#8217;s important to be honest and upfront about mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Charlamagne says, &#8220;It&#8217;s always important to share our experiences because they can help the next person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;therapy is not embarrassing&#8221; and &#8220;getting help is your right&#8221; and &#8220;be confident in your own skin.&#8221;  He also says, &#8220;Watch what you put into your brain\u2026 It&#8217;s okay to not be okay and it&#8217;s okay to say you&#8217;re not okay. What&#8217;s crazy is not going to get help for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlamagne Tha God is best known for being co-host of the nationally syndicated hip-hop iHeartRadio program <em>The Breakfast Club<\/em>. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, <em>Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It<\/em> and <em>Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/F9kPu5eudjc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Being shook is more than a rap lyric for Charlamagne, it&#8217;s his mission to overcome. While it may seem like he is ahead of the game and should have nothing to worry about, he is still plagued by anxieties &#8211; fear of being weak; fear of being a bad dad; fear of being a worse husband; and ultimately fear of failure. <em>Shook One<\/em> is his journey to beat back those fears and to empower you to no longer be held back from your potential.<\/p>\n<p>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F9kPu5eudjc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/F9kPu5eudjc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website for Charlamagne Tha God: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cthagodworld.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cthagodworld.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenard McKelvey, known professionally as Charlamagne Tha God, speaks with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show about what he discovered by going to therapy and why it&#8217;s important to be honest and upfront about mental health. Charlamagne says, &#8220;It&#8217;s always important to share our experiences because they can help the next person.&#8221; He says, &#8220;therapy\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/combatting-mental-health-stigma\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,103,3,19,17,201,137],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlamagne-tha-god","tag-fear","tag-mental-health","tag-stigma","tag-therapy","tag-trevor-noah","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}