My upcoming book uses original research to reveal how the chemical imbalance theory of depression was weaponised by Pharma, aided by the medical profession, to change the way we think about ourselves and what it means to be human

Contemporary mental health encourages us to locate the cause of distress as well as solutions to distress in individual people instead of systems. But so much of what is painful is seeping into all of us from the outside in.

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Thinking a lot about what we’ve been fed re: “locus of control”

In Psychopolitics, Byung-Chul Han writes, “Today, we do not deem ourselves subjugated subjects, but rather projects: always refashioning and reinventing ourselves. A sense of freedom attends passing from the state of subject to that of project…..

To what extent do contemporary conceptualizations of mental health serve to uphold the status quo by locating the source of suffering in individuals vs. holding systems accountable?