Tag: anxiety

Tory Promises to Improve Mental Healthcare Ignore the Reality of Living With Mental Illness
Here's why simplistic rhetoric and a small investment are not going to fix a broken system, which is letting people down.
Whether It’s ‘Rational’ or Not, Anxiety Has Its Own Logic
This personal account explores one source of difficulty faced by many people with anxiety: the social expectation of what constitutes 'reasonable' fears and worries.
Mental Health Under Neoliberalism – 5 Ways Work Drives Us Crazy
Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: "Working nine to five... It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it," sang Dolly Parton in 1980. Work is a common cause of stress, but with work seeming increasingly ubiquitous and demanding could it now be that work is stress?
You Don’t Have To Be Mad to Work Here, But It Helps
From Fordist drudgery to the personal chaos of precarity, work seems to both produce and feed off our madness. With depression, anxiety and suicide on the rise in the global north, it's time to look at the madness of work itself.