Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals and gives the average person a million different things to worry about. I mainly talk about anxiety and depression here, although I fully acknowledge that there's so much more to cover than just that, both in terms of mental illness and in terms of societal analysis.
Chronic stress at work linked to high blood pressure:
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1745/1/bmj.38693.435301.80v2
.pdf
Anxiety Disorders Association of America 2006 survey:
http://www.adaa.org/workplace-stress-anxiety-disorders-survey
700,
000 workers in the UK on zero-hour contracts:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/zero-hours-contracts-a-reality-for-almost-700000-uk-workers-ons-figures-show-10069528
.html
Fearing the brown envelope:
Sickness benefits and welfare reform
http://www.newstatesman.com/economics-blog/
2012/11/fearing-brown-envelope-sickness-benefits-and-welfare-reform
Work Capability Assessments linked with mental health problems:
http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/
2015/10/26/jech-2015-206209.full.pdf+html
Gallup employee engagement survey:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165269/worldwide-employees-engaged-work
.aspx
Rates of mental disorder among the homeless population:
http://www.crisis.org.uk/data/files/publications/
Mental%20health%20literature%20review.pdf
Review of evidence concerning security of tenure, maintenance, community etc:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nancy_Wells2/publication/227692027_Housing_and_Mental_Health_A_Review_of_the_Evidence_and_a_Methodological_and_Conceptual_Critique/links/53e180f40cf2235f352bcddf.pdf
19 million vacant homes in
America:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
2010/04/26/number-of-vacant-homes-in_n_552274.html
Information on gentrification:
http://www.acphd.org/media/341554/development-without-displacement.pdf
Higher rates of mental illness and substance dependence among economically disenfranchised groups:
http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/aptrcpsych/10/3/216.full.pdf
Heroin use in
Muirhouse and the
AIDS epidemic:
http://www.ncbi
.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2099412/
Mental illness across the globe:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/mental-health/data-and-statistics
How self-directed activities improve well-being:
http://www.examiner.com/article/how-hobbies-improve-mental-health-part-i
Hobbies for stress relief:
http://stress.about.com/od/funandgames/tp/hobby
.htm
- published: 22 Mar 2016
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