title: Healing time: the blues and African-American women.
abstract: In-depth interviews with 15 African-American women reveal that their ideas about and experiences with dysphoria differ markedly from mental health professionals' notion of dysphoria as a pathological state. For these women, the blues is both a transition mood between feeling down and depression and a signal that they need time for themselves.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Barbee
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003863:Depression / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*