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.
Here are some short articles that might help:
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mental-health-psychiatry-class-struggle. Article on the origins of psychiatry in the US. I found this a really good read! It goes into how capitalist cash is linked to the construction of individualist ideas around mental health and the framing of population-wide rates of despair/dysfunction as purely biological.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/18/teenage-girls-body-image-and-instagrams-perfect-storm. Straightforward piece on Facebook's awareness of Instagram's terrible impacts on teenage girls esteems and mental health.