What If “Fixing” Ourselves Is Not Enough?

We are human beings, not human doings...

It is time we examined the root of the mental health crisis, it is time we identified this system by it's name: capitalism

Before googling your mental health symptoms or liaising with your GP and labelling yourself with a disorder such as; imposter syndrome, mood disorder, chronic depression etc....you may want to stop and think -- am I a sane person, reacting to a mad world????

We have now pathologized the hell out of everything. We are considered to be sick, unwell, ill, broken or damaged. You are advised to have treatment to be 'fixed' or 'cured' - to find nothing is really working for you and therefore you will be stuck like this for the rest of your life, probably medicated and going round in circles.

Have you ever considered your mental health is a normal response to a messed up world that doesn't support human need?

It is unnatural to work longer hours than the average medieval peasant or obsessing over your self-image on social media platforms and inducing people with eating disorders.

Capitalism shapes our ideology which is why we all play the game of climbing up the corporate ladder with a careerist mentality or uploading perfect Instagram images to develop our personal and social brand. These actions are NOT the actions of a human beings in a NATURAL state - this is a creature modelling itself on capitalism.

The ironic part of this....is these traits are usually regarded as psychopathic, yet this is precisely what we are doing and becoming.

A further problem in psychotherapy treatment are therapeutic models that compound the idea of the client living in a "mistaken' reality and therefore the only way out is to change their view of the world to a more optimistic one...suggesting their thought processes are 'wrong' and putting them at odds with themselves.

Psychiatry, no matter how well-informed, is largely structured as a capitalist enterprise and does not address the causes of the problem!