magicianmew:

pumpkinspicefemme:

pumpkinspicefemme:

you know im not trying to call anyone out or w/e but this is the type of dialogue around mental illness on this site that i think is really unhelpful. the original post has over 100k notes. why do so many people experience life as something so soul crushing that they spend every second of their day wanting to sleep and then lie awake at night trying to prevent tomorrow? not to get marxist on main but i would suggest that the op points to the misery that work under capitalism creates for a lot of people and to just be like “all of these people have an individual pathology and its not ‘normal’” i feel really undermines our ability to talk about *why* so many people are depressed

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I am glad they included that these sorts of arguments do not mean anyone is denying you have a chemical imbalance – a frequent and understandable source of hurt when people encounter them. What we’re trying to examine here is WHY. The chemical balance of our brains is affected by everything we see and do in a day, not just innate genetic biology.

To suggest, as capitalist society does, that almost 20% of Americans were just born with an inherently dysfunctional mind is so incredibly fucking ludicrous that it blows me away that anyone still tries to pretend that makes any sense. There is no fucking way that is true. We’re not just born broken. We’re struggling to function in a broken world. And that is a key difference.