The question in my mind is "who is we." Where we is "we the people," or somesuch acting through our medical establishments.. we get what we have. Medicalizing &

The question in my mind is "who is we." Where we is "we the people," or somesuch acting through our medical establishments.. we get what we have. Medicalizing & treating as we do other ailments. The reason we use drugs instead of talk or behavioural therapies is because they are cheap or rather that recurring 1-on-1 therapy is very expensive. What does treating this systemically mean? We are increasingly treating mental health as systemic/epidemic problems via the medical systems. However, this generally means doing more diagnosing and treating of mental health in the same way. There isn't really an embodied "we" that makes decisions and takes actions at a cultural level. That is, no way of changing how people interact with eachother individuals doing it. A religious society might have a church that could do this. A local cleric could (for example) try and relieve loneliness in her community. I don't know of any body that could really affect how work culture works. Some things just develop in societies and "we" just don't act as a non-metaphorical "we." Cultural change works this way, mostly. If we're talking about a "we" that's me, you and a few other people, then we could definitely do a lot about mental health for some people.