Christians romanticize suffering which often results in mental illness which often makes people emotionally stunted. Of course Christianity is mostly engaged on the seat of the emotion. So these people are basically romanticizing something that kills faith...
Capitalism is bad for your mental health
Great article on capitalism and mental health: The privatisation of stress is a perfect capture system, elegant in its brutal efficiency. Capital makes the worker ill, and then multinational pharmaceutical companies sell them drugs to make them better. The social and...
Depression’s Causes
Great article on depression and basic income: Why? If depression is primarily—as we have been led to believe by pharmaceutical company marketing campaigns—a problem with our brain chemistry, this makes no sense. The brains of the people of Dauphin did not suddenly...
Exercise Guilting
An exercise that happens all too often in mental health circles is exercise guilting. They tell people physical exercise can treat depression (without giving any details about how much) and then when it isn't working (generally for people with more severe depression)...
The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids
I have always understood psychology to be an enemy if not the enemy. From an article on how digital media is messing up kids: As a child and adolescent psychologist myself, the inevitable conclusion is both embarrassing and heartbreaking. The destructive forces of...
The Discipline of Stigma
There is a good case to be made for the stigma surrounding mental illness, at least for those in power. For one, it keeps money that could go to the rich from reaching social services. The second is harder to explain. We need to start seeing shame and stigma as a...
Why I Reject Forgiveness Culture
STIR article that says what I feel way better than I could: When I say that I am against forgiveness, I am not judging individuals who choose to forgive. If doing so helps you, then by all means, forgive. What I abhor is a culture that places demands on victims and...
mental health treatments with extravagant promises
There's a really easy way to tell whether a mental health treatment is likely effective. If, when the treatment fails, the person gets blamed then the treatment's effectiveness should be seriously called into question. For example religion often makes all these...
point
The whole evolutionary point of depression was to serve as a call for extra support from the group. Modern hyperindividualistic methods of treating depression often don't work. It is easy to see why, everyone naturally does (and indeed is expected to) optimize for...
on the increasing volume of mass murderers
Mass shooting tragedies like the one in New Brunswick and Seattle Pacific University seem to be happening more and more often. I am in a unique situation to give feedback on this because the perpetrators often have spec sheets like me--male, angry, withdrawn,...
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