'I was looking for someone like me' - Is peer counseling the answer? [calmatters.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/14/204:00 AM

By Jocelyn Wiener, Cal Matters, September 9, 2020

Keris Jän Myrick keeps a photo on her desk of the woman who helped transform her life.

As a Black woman living with schizophrenia, Myrick had spent years searching for a mentor. Someone who wouldn’t judge, wouldn’t pathologize, wouldn’t ask her to translate her reality into terms they could understand.

“I was looking for someone like me,” she said.

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