It’s really important IMO for folks to keep in mind that anti-psychiatry / anti-medical people borrow this rhetoric heavily in order to make their own goals sound appealing to the antiwork / anticapitalist demographics.
So absolutely - you can’t “therapy” away poverty, and antidepressants don’t cure eviction; but it’s definitely worth understanding that as much as poverty and work-related stress can contribute to or even cause mental disorders - those disorders still need treatment, and in most cases they won’t be fixed if the person’s financial situation is restored. Like how bad OHSA can cause injuries, but fixing the OHSA doesn’t put Timmy’s leg back on - people can be wealthy and retired, and still have depression or anxiety. Just because someone is also poor, or under workplace stress, doesn’t invalidate their mental health as mental health.
If someone is experiencing distress due to their mental health, regardless if that is caused by finances, they should have access to treatment and aid, and they should have the support of their working-class peers.
Diminishing the independent significance of mental health and mental disorders in order to make points about work and finance cheapens both viewpoints for the gain of neither.
1.) It’s not about deminishing independent significance of mental health and mental disorders in order to make points about work and finance but pointing out how much current working society strains our mental health.
2.) Not only does the current society create mental health problems but also makes mental health problems WORSE for people with unrelated mental health problems. Making things easier for everyone would help everyone get better including people with independent mental health problems and mental disorders and not the opposite like you say.
Like … yes, but also no.
It’s really important IMO for folks to keep in mind that anti-psychiatry / anti-medical people borrow this rhetoric heavily in order to make their own goals sound appealing to the antiwork / anticapitalist demographics.
So absolutely - you can’t “therapy” away poverty, and antidepressants don’t cure eviction; but it’s definitely worth understanding that as much as poverty and work-related stress can contribute to or even cause mental disorders - those disorders still need treatment, and in most cases they won’t be fixed if the person’s financial situation is restored. Like how bad OHSA can cause injuries, but fixing the OHSA doesn’t put Timmy’s leg back on - people can be wealthy and retired, and still have depression or anxiety. Just because someone is also poor, or under workplace stress, doesn’t invalidate their mental health as mental health.
If someone is experiencing distress due to their mental health, regardless if that is caused by finances, they should have access to treatment and aid, and they should have the support of their working-class peers.
Diminishing the independent significance of mental health and mental disorders in order to make points about work and finance cheapens both viewpoints for the gain of neither.
1.) It’s not about deminishing independent significance of mental health and mental disorders in order to make points about work and finance but pointing out how much current working society strains our mental health.
2.) Not only does the current society create mental health problems but also makes mental health problems WORSE for people with unrelated mental health problems. Making things easier for everyone would help everyone get better including people with independent mental health problems and mental disorders and not the opposite like you say.