![]() ![]() It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. ![]() Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). ![]() First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. “The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”įuriously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. ![]() We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. “When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. ![]()
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