HOUSTON – Rapper Megan Thee Stallion has launched a mental health website. The website focuses on providing various mental health resources.
Houston native Megan Thee Stallion, also known by her real name Megan Pete, has launched a new website, “Bad Bi***** Have Bad Days Too” with the aim of providing people with information on places where they can get therapy. , helplines and other resources and advocacy groups for minority groups.
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Megan’s website is named after a line from the song ‘Anxiety’ from her new album Traumazine. The song features the lyrics “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Bad bi***** have bad days too” and the general track tells the story of Megan wanting to talk to someone and overcome her mental health issues.
The rapper’s new site offers several therapy platforms people can connect to, including suicide and crisis helplines, addiction helplines, and crisis helplines. domestic and sexual abuse.
Megan also provided therapeutic resource directories for black girls and boys and a resource for people to find LGBTQ therapists of color. There are also helplines specifically for the LGBTQIA+ community.
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A year ago, Megan Thee Stallion opened up about her mental health struggles on Taraji P. Henson’s Facebook Watch series, “Peace of mind with TarajiShe explained how after her parents died she didn’t know who to talk to or what to do and recently started seeking help for therapy.
“As a black person, when you think of therapy, you think of ‘Oh my god, I’m weak’, you think of drugs and you just think of the worst,” she told the co-host of Henson and Henson, Tracie Jade. She also shares how black women generally have to put on a mask and are seen as therapists for everyone.
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“Therapy wasn’t portrayed in the media as something good. And now it’s becoming safer to say, ‘Okay, there’s a little too much going on. Someone help me,’” Megan said during their chat.
There is a link provided at the end of the site for people to find therapists and sign up for updates on the site.