We are experiencing a pathologized generation. Told distraction & boredom is ADHD, Sadness is Depression, feeling good is mania, worry/fear is an anxiety disorder. Decease stigma means take these drugs. Completely lost site of what it means to be human.

‘Capitalism doesn’t want your inner life to be completely fixed- it is happy for you to be a functional depressive or a functional alcoholic, because in both instances you are still a functional consumer’ #Sedated 👇

For me, relational deprivation & demoralisation are key drivers of rising youth distress - these are driven by wider structural factors that dismantle community, disrupt intimate connections & make embracing one's future a source of fear not hope. Tackle these, tackle the crisis.

Just a reminder that if it is THIS easy to ban TikTok in US, it is also just as easy to ban PornHub which contains thousands of videos of child abuse, non-consensual sex (assaults and rapes that have been filmed and uploaded), and extremely violent porn. The technology to make

Don't believe the chatbot therapist is impartial. It has an agenda to push. It's idea of what constitutes recovery is written by vested interests - redefining ideas of 'health'. Once let in, it'll become a powerful tool of socialisation in the coming decades... Think about it.

One of the greatest failings of social justice over the 20th century was allowing our emotional suffering to fall under the purview of a psych-system that pathologises, individualises, commodifies, depoliticises & decollectivises it.

Nearly a 1/4 of our population was prescribed a psych-drug last year. Yet the majority weren't suffering from biologically discernible 'mental illnesses' but from understandable human reactions to serious socio/psycho problems - issues the drugs are powerless to treat.

We should never say: "Antidepressants are effective 'treatments' for mental 'illness'," as this is pure ideology. At most, we should rather say: "Antidepressants alter states of mind & body in ways that may or may not be experienced as useful by the individual in question".

"Of the scores of people I spoke to... all perceived their lives to be better off thanks to an [ADHD] diagnosis. [And yet, since] the diagnosis, almost all had left their job, dropped out of education & lost many old friends. Several were housebound". theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Excellent thread about Eli Lilly and Zyprexa. They even tried to promote the idea that schizophrenia caused diabetes

🧵Why is mental health disability rising? Here are key reasons rarely discussed in mainstream media: 1️/ For decades we've neglected tackling the social determinants of societal distress, relying instead on medicalisation as a superficial ‘fix’ for downstream harms. This has...

Think about it! Almost the entire evidence-base for the 'effectiveness' of antidepressants was commissioned, paid for &/or conducted by the companies that make & sell antidepressants - companies whose future profits relied on 'finding' positive results. Have we lost our minds...?

To argue we are over-medicalising distress isn't to deny the vital need for support; rather it's to suggest that such suffering demands a different kind of provision- one rooted not in the prescriptions of medicine, but in public health, relational & community-based forms of care

Morning! Time to wake up to the greatest marketing scam of all time ⏰

There has never been a generation of young people so colonised by mental health propaganda at such a young age.

What the public is being told about the nature of mental health is misleading and may be harming our collective sense of well-being.

The neurofication of everyday life repeats the errors of the past, by medicalising, commodifying, individualising & depoliticising our distress & difference. In essence, it calls for more of the failing same: drug 'treatments' & identity-siloing instead of structural reform.

Call me cynical, but isn't Mental Health Awareness Week a hollow festival of shallow activism, that companies leverage to perform 'progressiveness' & everyone else expolits to sell their individualistic ideas & wares; where social determinants remain buried & nothing gets better.

Without a psych-diagnosis, access to support is denied. The neoliberal state thus demands you accept yourself as dysfunctional before it will 'help', capturing your suffering in an ideological move where the fault is located in you rather than in your environment or unmet needs.

Let's not call for more resilience, diagnoses, drugs, medicalisation & neurofication to address escalating rates of poor mental health, let's call for new social policy to tackle its social determinants & properly fund demedicalised psycho-social support. That's it in a nutshell.