Mental illness

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Well, it certainly exacerbetes the symptoms, there are lots of data indicating that poor people that depression and anxiety is more common in low-income households. There's also strong correlations between financial insecurity and depression/anxiety. I don't remember the sources for this though, and i don't have access to the same databases i used to have. There is, however this article which suggest that neoliberal ideology plays an important part in the mental illness of todays youth: jakkkobinmag.com/2018/01/under-neoliberalism-you-can-be-your-own-tyrannical-boss Mark Fisher(rip) has also written a lot of good shit about this.

This doesn't mean that capitalism causes mental illness, but it makes it worse by witholding treatment, its ideology or by creating an environment in which the disease can flourish

That's a normal emotional response, not a mental illness.

Depression is not the only mental illness that exists, also this .
Depression isn't "When I'm sad" it's when nothing has any meaning for you, it's when you believe that YOU yourself are worthless, the whole world is worthless, that there is no point in doing any sort of action.
Even if you are destroyed emotionally and psychologically by any sort of event and unable to function for days, weeks, even months, you will get through it, but those that suffer from depression have no ending like that.

Though to say that "mental illness is an invention of capitalism" is also a load of bullshit. Personality disorders, schizophrenia, emotional disorders, development disorders, etc… are all a thing. Even the ancient Greeks and Romans had laws how one should treat those that are "mentally ill"
And during/after the French Revolution Philippe Pinel took off the chains and manacles off the insane asylum patients and was one of the first to start giving them a more humane treatment.

Putting people under stress tends to promote mental illness. Our shitty healthcare also fails to do much to help people with mental illness too.

Like, the American Psychological Association (APA) recently started calling "masculinity" a mental disorder.

Isn't this phenomenon all explained in Deluze Anti-Oedipus?

The ancient Greeks and Romans had no concept of mental health and mental illness in the strict senses of the phrases, although they certainly did have one of madness. This distinction sounds needlessly picky, but it is important. Madness was reconceptualized over time, within capitalism, as having to do with bodily health, rather than spiritual affliction, and the psychiatric nosology that resulted in "personality disorders, schizophrenia, emotional disorders, development disorders, etc." is largely due to Kraepelin and his followers, not the Greeks or Romans.

The human mind is a fragile faculty. Probably more so than the body.
As someone who has Aspergers, I would rather have cancer than autism. Believe me, I would. Cancer can be cured. And if not, at least you can die. Autism is fatal, but not life-threatening. Your brain is constantly saying "Go left….NO! RIGHT! NO LEFT!", x1000 per second, causing you to doubt every executive move. You know how a task is done, but your muscles cant get the fucking groove right. Alot of people thunk autism is just awkwardness, saying to "cheer up", "gain some confidence", "talk to girls", "youre a smart kid, you could be a professor."
The idea that autism = genius is a gross overstatement. For every autist thats smart as a whip, a dozen others are drooling buffons or "normies" whos mental development is a significant fraction of their physical age.
People who say autism is a gift have NO IDEA what the fuck theyre saying.
They do the same with schizophrenia and split personality disorder, hoping that the poor soul has a reservoir of hidden genius or maternal imprint within them and they turn out to be like every other normie but non-neurotypical.

Sounds like anxiety, not Asperger's. You should avoid explaining everything about yourself through your diagnosis. Diagnoses are tools for psychiatric treatment, not horoscopes-but-scientific.

(me)
Also, trusting that you have a reservoir of hidden genius is just good Stirnerite egoist ethics. You're the Unique One. There are no excuses.