Does anyone have any good sources on capitalism beign fucking AWFUL for your mental health/well being? I'm writing a paper on alienation and I could have sworn I had concrete sources for this lying around but I appear to have lost what I had.
Does anyone have any good sources on capitalism beign fucking AWFUL for your mental health/well being? I'm writing a paper on alienation and I could have sworn I had concrete sources for this lying around but I appear to have lost what I had.
I think the majority of modern mental health issues are a result of capitalism. Would ADHD really cause you so much distress if your livelihood didn't depend on doing one boring task for eight hours straight? I'm an anxious mess, but would that be the case if I wasn't living under the constant threat of poverty? How many cases of depression are really just burnout? Obviously this isn't the case for all mental illness, but I think this is the reason why mental illness is on the rise.
I don't have any research on this to share, unfortunately, but I do think that communism will require a vastly different model of mental health than what we are accustomed to.
I definitely think capitalism makes mental illness worse, but while the abolition of capitalism would certainly help me feel a lot better, it wouldn’t anywhere near cure me. I’ve had panic attacks since I was 8 years old, and depression since like 10. It wasn’t capitalism making me feel that way, my brain just doesn’t work right.
I'd say the same, but I can also trace my depression right back to the point where I became fully cognizant of the fact that I would never get to experience "recess" again. It wasn't 1:1, obviously, but I started having a lot of those thoughts around the same time my depression took hold. Maybe those thoughts were symptomatic of depression, but maybe there just really is a whole lot to be depressed over and I was predisposed to it. Probably some combination of the two!
My parents argued about money, so capitalism has fucked my shit from the start! Zing!
In all honesty, take the Gabor Mate pill: even if you had a comparitively good childhood, our collective shit is fucked