Racial Battle Fatigue is a term which posits that repeated racial microaggressions and racial discrimination can lead to socio-psychological stress responses. 

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- Discrimination and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder among African Americans
- Discrimination and Social Anxiety Disorder Among African-Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites

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Levine, Debra Siegel PhD*; Himle, Joseph A. PhD†‡; Abelson, Jamie M. MSW§; Matusko, Niki MS§; Dhawan, Nikhil MD‡; Taylor, Robert Joseph PhD†§. Discrimination and Social Anxiety Disorder Among African-Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 202(3):p 224-230, March 2014. | DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000099 

Discrimination and Social Anxiety Disorder Among African-Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites

Racial Battle Fatigue

Prior to 1996, it was found that, while black Americans and white Americans had the same statistical probability of acquiring OCD, black Americans were either less likely to seek treatment for the disorder or were less likely to get diagnosed in the first place. In a survey sample of 1,500 individuals with OCD, only 30 (2%) of the total were black. 

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