Crying “mental health” is a distraction from the disparity in wealth. It’s patronizing and ineffective. The vast majority of people forced into mental health care see it as a joke and a punishment, just like rehab.
People are miserable and lost because the only paths that seem available to them are serving for peanuts or taking advantage of others.
We need to start looking in different directions and valuing different things if we want these problems to be solved.
Crying “mental health” is a distraction from the disparity in wealth. It’s patronizing and ineffective. The vast majority of people forced into mental health care see it as a joke and a punishment, just like rehab.
People are miserable and lost because the only paths that seem available to them are serving for peanuts or taking advantage of others.
We need to start looking in different directions and valuing different things if we want these problems to be solved.
The vast majority of people forced into rehab may view it as a joke and a punishment, but it still gets them sobered up.
Ask me how I know.