HIBT Lab! The Confess Project: Lorenzo Lewis

Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. Yeah. For a variety of reasons, and not always understood, there's been a pretty significant increase in diagnosed rates of anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions in the US and even in other countries over the past decade. Some of it may have to do with better systems of diagnosis, and some of it

is still a mystery. But what we do know is that access to mental health care here in the US Is not always easy. For starters, there is a shortage of providers. Yeah.

For black Americans, the challenge is even more acute. As of 2020, only four percent of psychologists in the US were black. Which means it can be particularly hard for black patients to find mental health providers who can relate to their experiences. Lorenzo Lewis saw this crisis firsthand while working with young incarcerated boys and men in Arkansas. So he decided to find a way to help black men and boys talk about depression, anxiety, and trauma. With someone they could trust.

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