Suicide Is Real

POETRY FOR INCLUSION

My feelings on the rising numbers of Black individuals dying by suicide.

Black psyche despair

Seeking ataraxia

Suicide is real

Dr Clark is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for Psychiatric Times^TM.