The point about mental health is really interesting and important. It's clearly overdetermined, but the different ways of attributing these issues, I think, is

The point about mental health is really interesting and important. It's clearly overdetermined, but the different ways of attributing these issues, I think, is understated. I recently read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, and one of his theses is that in the neoliberal era we've essentially "privatized" mental health, treating it individually/biologically rather than systemically: > I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?