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My treatment was affected
by my environment.
In Rochester, there's no
access to these things,
at least there wasn't back in 2010,
because it is a large
African American community,
and not too many people
think about problems
in the African American community
when it comes to mental health.
Mental health isn't a stigma
in the African American community.
It's more of a drug problem,
you know, dealing with the crack epidemic
or things like that, or crime.
So there's more resources
devoted to dealing
with those things opposed to mental health
in the African American community.
'Cause when I got back,
there weren't too many places
that I could have went to for help
when it came to my depression
and when it came to my PTSD.
My therapy was, hey,
talking to my best friend,
"Hey Silas, let's go get
high, let's go get drunk,
let's go to the pool
hall and just hang out."
And that was my therapy,
because that was what I had access to.