¡No Estoy Loco! A Zine About Mental Health in the Latinx Community

This capstone project is a zine that describes personal experiences, resources, media, and research on the stigma, attitude, and beliefs of mental illness in the Latinx community. I also look at aspects that influence or facilitate health seeking behaviors in the community. The narrative accompanying the zine will describe personal experiences and research on the stigma of mental illness in the community as well as other barriers to receiving mental health services. Grey (2015) points out that psychological theories and research have been largely developed based on white, Western European groups. Minority groups have been often left out of this conversation in the past and our mental health experiences are a little different, with culture being intertwined with our mental illnesses. Latino/a people have been neglected, misunderstood, and inappropriately served by the mental health system (Grey, 2015), and there are several barriers Latinos/as must confront when seeking mental health services, including socioeconomic status, living in areas without as many mental health resources, and language barriers. This capstone explores the some experiences of members of the Latinx community when dealing with psychological difficulties and examines the limitations and barriers that members of the Latinx community must face when seeking psychological support. Based in part on this review of research, this capstone also presents a zine that has been created as a resource for the Latinx community.