Break the Stigma with Dior Vargas
Latinx Therapy
Adriana Alejandre
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our last break the stigma segment of this season! This special episode on Mental Health Awareness month concludes Season 2 and we will begin Season 3 with Children's Mental Health next week!
Today’s guest is Dior Vargas - a Latina Feminist Mental Health Activist living in New York City. She is the creator of the People of Color and Mental Illness Photo Project, a response to the invisibility of people of color in the media representation of mental illness. She is also the editor of The Color of My Mind, a photo essay book based on the photo project. Dior tours the country giving keynotes, hosting workshops, and speaking on panels. Her work has been featured in many media outlets such as Forbes, NBC News Latino, and The Guardian. She has received The White House Champion of Change for Disability Advocacy Across Generations award and is currently a Master of Public Health Candidate at NYU's College of Global Public Health.
TRIGGER WARNING: Part of Dior’s story is her experience with suicidality. We talk about this throughout her entire episode.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Latinx Therapy. |
| 0:05.3 | The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional and is not a substitute for psychological diagnosis or treatment. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm your host, Adriana Alejandra Alejandre, licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to our last break the stigma segment of this season. |
| 0:25.0 | Overall, the season really showcased the growth of Latinx therapy. |
| 0:30.2 | It became really difficult for me to edit and release episodes because there have been so |
| 0:35.4 | many exciting events happening with us. We have our birthday party |
| 0:39.6 | celebrating our one year coming up on May 18th. And I just want to go ahead and thank everybody |
| 0:45.0 | who has been a loyal listener, a new listener, and has been sharing our podcast episodes, |
| 0:51.2 | seeing the community built from Latinx therapy and all of the thoughtful and |
| 0:55.9 | inspiring messages on our social media and email has really helped to motivate me to continue |
| 1:03.0 | this project and keep it going. Please continue sending me what you think about your first |
| 1:07.7 | therapy experience or what your parents thought when they |
| 1:11.0 | listened to one of our episodes and rate and review us because it also helps the podcast. |
| 1:16.6 | Over the weekend, I also was able to go to Las Vegas, Nevada with my family. During that trip, |
| 1:24.4 | I was able to create a Latinx therapist social. So about 10 of us got together |
| 1:32.2 | and networked collaborated, met one another. Some of us knew each other. Some of us did not. So it was a |
| 1:38.2 | really beautiful experience. And again, I couldn't have done that without all of you helping me to |
| 1:43.7 | share the post, share the message, |
| 1:45.7 | and bring us all together. |
| 1:47.4 | We are going to merge into our guest for today. |
| 1:51.5 | Today's guest is Dior Vargas. |
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