Kids in Crisis | For young people of color, racism's toll on mental health [StevensPointJournal.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/27/174:00 AM

For Lauren Adair Ball, the cost of racism is a 25-milligram dose of Lexipro.

She arrived at Lawrence University four years ago excited about the economics courses, nice financial aid package and beautiful campus about four hours north of her southeast Chicago home. Soon after, she got a counselor.

A black student in a predominantly white community, Adair Ball felt overwhelmed by racial microaggressions — actions and remarks based on her race, marking her as out of place. Each one may seem insignificant individually, but taken together they were a constant weight to Adair Ball.

[For more of this story, written by Rory Linnane, go to http://www.stevenspointjournal...al-health/100871302/]

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