Depressed While Black

Home
United States
Greensboro, NC
Depressed While Black

DEPRESSED WHILE BLACK is an online community that shares mental health stories from an African-American lens.

DWB has grown into an online community, an in-progress book, and a nonprofit providing Black-affirming personal care items to patients. Imadé (ee-MAH-day) is a writer and mental health advocate who founded Depressed While Black. She is a suicide attempt survivor who lives with clinical depression and borderline personality disorder. Imadé first developed Depressed While Black as her 2015 Columbia University Non-Fiction Creative Writing MFA thesis. She is now in the process of filing paperwork for Depressed While Black to become a non-profit organization. DepressedWhileBlack.com

Booking/Contact: DepressedWhileBlack@gmail.com

10/28/2025

Thank you, Cone Health Foundation, for helping us launch our Heal at Home Pilot Program! With the Partnering for Health Equity grant, we gave Welcome Home Kits to discharged psychiatric patients and families entering supportive housing programs.

We combined lemongrass and lavender gift sets from The Black Belt Soap Company and our Black Beauty Supply Kit from Hairizon to provide handmade soap, shea butter, and Black haircare supplies. We seek to break the cycle of hospitalization and homelessness by welcoming our neighbors back into the community.

Recently, we delivered a small batch of Welcome Home Kits to Partnership Village, a supportive housing community by Greensboro Urban Ministry. We met with Ms. Gin (left), the Director of Partnership Village, who serves a beautiful community with wrap-around services. This meeting was planned with the help of the Cone Health Foundation and our wonderful contact Yazmin (right), who is the Director of Community Engagement and Impact. Together, we discussed kit feedback and the future of Heal at Home.

We are proud to serve Partnership Village residents. No one should worry about paying for hygiene items as they enter their new home. It is our hope that our Welcome Home Kits heal the body as we work on resources in the future to heal their minds.

09/16/2025

From our comrade Oyanova:

Q***r Quest by is happening Oct 11–12 — a retreat blending STEM, healing, and q***r joy. 🎟 Tickets 👉 q***rquest2025.com ***rQuest2025

09/10/2025

I still feel this way four years later!

09/01/2025

On Labor Day, we celebrate the dedicated social workers who provide culturally affirming care for children facing unimaginable circumstances.

We extend our sincere thanks to Fantasia L. Edmonds (as shown in the photo) and Deborah Cousin, who received our first Welcome Home Kits for foster care children and their caregivers at Durham County Department of Social Services!

On the very first day of our Heal at Home pilot program, our Welcome Home Kits brought a caregiver to tears. We put deep love and intention into our kits. We want to welcome children back into the community after being discharged from the psychiatric emergency room at Duke Children’s Hospital.

Our kits are lovingly made by The Black Belt Soap Company and Hairizon to provide handmade shea butter, soap, and haircare products. These items can make it easier for caregivers to support foster care children with Black-affirming haircare.

Thank you to our wonderful donors and grant funder, Cone Health Foundation, for making this possible!

Address

Greensboro, NC

Website

http://depressedwhileblack.org/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Depressed While Black posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Depressed While Black:

Shortcuts

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in Greensboro?