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.
Tag: depression
‘How do we explain depression to ourselves?’ Bifo remembers Mark Fisher
The Italian autonomist theorist Franco 'Bifo' Berardi remembers Mark Fisher, who passed away in January. Translated by Luca Miotto.
4 Theses on Depression and Radical Praxis
With rates of depression on the rise, it's clear that our mental health is a condition of the political situation in which we live. Here are four propositions for how to approach radical anti-capitalist praxis in an age of mass depression.
Mark Fisher, 1968 – 2017
Senior editor Craig Gent remembers the writer, educator and blogger Mark Fisher.
7 Ways to Support Friends When They’re Mentally Unwell
Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: At some point most of us will have a friend or family member who is mentally unwell. Here are some ideas for how to support friends who are in need without either blaming them for their suffering or trying to become their rescuers.
Talking Therapy: 8 Thoughts on How We Talk About Mental Health
Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: Despite the historical inability of psychiatry to find biological evidence for mental illnesses, we still use its language when talking about mental health. Is it time we instead returned to a political approach to mental health and psychiatric care?
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?
5 Terrains for the Struggle for Mental Health
While the social movements of the 1960s and 70s were characterized by strong anti-psychiatry currents, the politics of mental health remains somewhat neglected in contemporary movements despite mental health issues being on the rise since the 2008 global financial crisis. This article looks at 5 potential terrains of struggle.