What is to be done with regards to mental health problems? I feel like far left politics attract people with a lot of baggage and narcissism who find a way to wreck every space they enter. Far right politics attract turbo-schizos, you can just tell by the kind of people that come here to raid. Everytime I see another schizo-fascist post here I really think these people are beyond saving and should just be thrown into a gulag and hope they find a way to rehabilitate there.
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On the mental health problem
Angel Hall
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Jonathan Miller
"Mental illness" is a stupid concept. If we dig hard enough, we'll find that even the seemingly most well adjusted people suffer from various mental issues, but if these mental issues don't interfere with capital accumulation, (they are able to keep a job, don't hurt other people) they are rarely categorized as mentally ill.
We are all fucked. Some people just hide/repress it better.
Ethan Morales
The funniest is when the far left and far right agree on things.
Gabriel Mitchell
"cuck philosophy" made a very good video recently about the Lacanian conception of "Schizophrenia" under capitalism being a cause of unstable ego formations due to the constant mirroring effects of our larger commercial culture… Foucault said that mental illness is primarily a result of alienation under capitalism.
For me, schizophrenics are often genius in their analysis - you ever watch those pizzagate videos? they make amazing connections that any sane person would miss. And such is the universalism and absolutism of the right in the pursuit of hypermeaning in a dissociated landscape that fuels their ideology. Everything is about purity and certainty. Room for hesitation as it concerns political, moral or existential matters leaves room for that doubt; the doubt that they are incorrect, but they invest so much emotion in their worldview that it becomes a diamond echo-chamber, unbreakable. Obviously, this culminates in extreme reaction; fascism, so I have no sympathies for their ideals. They are crazy, but a result of he postmodern condition.
Most of the mental issues of the left are personality disorders, not cognitive disabilities, so I don't worry so much about it.
Zachary Butler
you are also creating a broad category in your assessment - I believe precision in regards to mental phenomenon are important nonetheless.
Ryder Turner
This is only half true. I do think most mental health issues are a combination of an otherwise healthy person who just isn't well adjusted to capitalism, and the effects of soul crushing alienation. But there are also cases of very clear imbalances on the level of brain chemistry, like bipolar disorder, or crippling depression caused by abnormally low levels of dopamine and serotonin.
Lucas Hernandez
I think both left and right attract mentally ill people, in case of depression like myself left wing more so because there is a sense of comraderie inherent in it (laughs in sectrarian). I try not to bring mental illness into politics and wouldn't have mentioned it outside of this thread, but I know in my own case there is no sense of hope for meaningful work and no reason to do meaningless work just to survive when one is suicidal. While I don't think alienation causes depression I do think it worsens it in those that are predisposed and that ending alienation would help allieviate depression in less severe cases as it would give people meaning, but we could also allow people to move between different types of work without such massive risk of poverty while between jobs, helping people find work that fits them without feeling trapped at the first company you sign up for.
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Chase Bennett
a lot of depression would probably clear up if people had the opportunities to do the type of work they'd enjoy. the job market has artificial scarcity though so people have no choices but to live miserable existences for the sake of profit.
Gabriel Lee
This is basically right, but the study and treatment of mental illness is still relevant to people's reality. We should stress both that mental illness is real and needs to be treated, but we crucially need to oppose a bioessentialist understanding of mental illness as "faulty wiring" or "unbalanced chemicals" instead of being the individual psychic reaction to socioeconomic alienation and exploitation. Mark Fisher has a great quote on this:
Cooper Bailey
There is slready something we can do for our depressed comrades.
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