How to Protect Your Mental Health After the Stressful ’24 Election

By Jennifer Porter Gore | Word In BlackOverview: Hopes in the Black community were raised when Harris, the first Black woman nominated by a major pollitical party, ran even with Donald Trump in the presidential race. Now that Trump has retaken power, her devastating loss was an emotionally crushing blow.(WIB) – Two days after daring to hope that Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black woman vice president could defeat Donald Trump for the presidency — belief built on Harris’s enthusiastic, overflowing rallies, her record fundraising and dead-heat, poll numbers — Black America is still mourning an emotionally devastating outcome.“I never thought an election could make me this sad but I’ve been literally feeling like I’m living soulless and out of body since the results…,” a user with the X handle @JAPANESEBLACK& wrote in a post& on Friday afternoon.& Fellow X user @joedeenikia& was down in the dumps with him:& “The amount of anxiety this election has caused me is actually insane …just for the end results to be this … yeah, I’m drained,” she wrote.& RELATED: Do We Owe Black Men an Apology?Since she replaced President Joe Biden in July, mental health experts say, the Black community has had to...