ChrisMayLA6 ,
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Here's the final section of a letter to the FT from Brendan Kelly (Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin) makes a crucial point...

While there is no doubting the problems of mental health, to treat all aspects of these personal travails as illness is to focus too much on the individual and allow our toxic society & workplaces to escape their share of the blame.

Absolutely right!

Most damningly, reframing day-to-day distress as a “mental health issue” shifts responsibility from toxic, pathogenic political orders which generate most human suffering, and on to individuals who are exhorted to seek therapy or build more “resilience”. If anyone needs to don a suit of psychological armour and an emotional hard-hat just to go to work, the fault lies with the workplace, not the worker. Everyone who suffers requires support, but not everyone who suffers is ill. The solutions lie in judicious diagnosis, compassionate care and taking political action for better services and more equal societies. Aux barricades! Brendan Kelly Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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