My Nerves Are Bad: Puerto Rican Women Managing Mental Illness and HIV Risk

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Over a two-year period, creator Sana Loue and her research team followed the lives of fifty-three Puerto Rican women living with severe mental illness as they coped with day-to-day challenges in the areas of circle of relatives, romantic relationships, employment, social products and services, substance use, and health care. The team interviewed the women and shadowed them at their homes, churches, schools, physicians’ offices, circle of relatives events, and other occasions to be able to remember how their mental illness, their gender, their language, and their culture affected their relationships with others, their understandings of their own situations, and their hopes for themselves and their families.

Sana Loue lets us see the remarkable strength of among the women and hear in their own words about their efforts to continue to exist, regardless of long histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse, partner violence, substance use, poverty, and severe mental illness. We also witness the violence that surrounds them and the HIV risk that becomes part of their lives in their efforts to continue to exist economically and emotionally.

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