Hey guys, is mental illness a a real thing? I've been kinda depressed lately and feeling a bit suicidal.... С Hey kid, would say that depression is real, suffering from it myself, however, be careful

Hey guys, is mental illness a
a
real thing? I've been kinda
depressed lately and feeling a
bit suicidal....
С
Hey kid, would say that depression is real,
suffering from it myself, however, be careful not
у to fall for the Western bio psychiatric model.
There are no biological basis mental illnesses,
я rather as Szasz (1961) said "their function itis to
disguise and thus render more palatable the
bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations”.
So look at the social and environmental factors
causing this kid.
Hello champs, would like to add "the invention of a
diagnosis has been central to selling drugs and is also
7 deeply embedded in institutional and economic politics”
к; 2012, Diagnoses of mental illnesses
are designed to manage the side effects of neo-liberal
с capitalism. Diagnosis transforms people with complaints
into patients with diseases, which obscures the root
2 causes of mental illnesses. So let's refer to itas social
4 suffering instead.
Hello kings, really glad to see that you are familiar with
anti-psychiatry literature. would wish to add however, that
there is a colonial dimension to this. Exporting labels of
mental illnesses to the Global South aids other forms of
i neo-colonialism such as the IMF's structural adjustment
и programs overshadowing the real causes of native
people's suffering. The to individually get better