"It wasn’t until I talked with Dr. Imani Walker that I understood what was happening to my body. Dr. Imani did more than give me the language of “depression” and “anxiety” and “chronic fatigue” and “disordered eating.” She told me that everything I thought was wrong with me was everything that was ailing Black folk in this country. “We don’t have to suffer anymore,” she said. “Do you understand that? We do not have to suffer.” I didn’t know if anyone had ever said those words to me, but I knew I’d never really heard those words before.

One of my first questions to Imani was, “What’s crazy?” As a child, the word “crazy” wonderfully bounced around every black space I ever called home. “Crazy” described people, places, and things. “Crazy” was a destination and an origin. “Crazy” was at once a pejorative and totally emblematic of our black abundance. What’s Crazy?! is a percussive, honest look at black mental health from a young black female doctor who loves black people, loves our craziness and knows that our healing necessitates really reckoning with the question of “What’s Crazy.” In a socially mediated world obsessed with hyperbole, it’s understatement to say that Dr. Imani Walker saved my life. Dr. Walker showed me how a love of Black folks in this country necessitates an understanding of our minds mind, the worst parts of American culture and the best kinds of medicine."