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so, like, obviously Hatt Maig is not particularly useful apart from maybe a first step for people who've literally never thought about mental illness before (and even then, hardly) but what's your favourite critical/good/interesting mental health writing?
this by @ofthesparrows, about mental health and 'productivity' culture and its requirement that we offer something up for capitalism even during periods of sadness, is an excellent antidote to middle-class-mental-health-lite: https://www.peachtreepeartree.com/blog/2019/5/15/a-process-philosophy-of-sadness
I've learned so much from @KGuilaine's twitter/blog about all the ways in which mental health services are designed by and for white people, and don't account for/actively suppress the mental trauma of existing as a racialised person in a racist society
Yesterday I listened to @HarryJosieGiles talking about the ways madness is socially constituted by a state which can't cope with difference, and the way that overlaps with transness and queerness, and it was fucking great. Listen/watch here:
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a beautiful book which absolutely refuses to separate and abstract 'mental illness' from its complex, lived, classed, radicalised contexts: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work
Jo Grace @jo3grace writes beautifully on what mental wellbeing might look like for people who experience the world primarily through sensory impressions rather than language.
Not wishing to blow my own
but in terms of potential usefulness - this is the most popular piece on my blog, the only post that I'll get random strangers messaging me about to say it helped them. Maybe it'll help you: https://thetetrapodinsufferable.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/its-not-you-its-cbt-on-behaving-maladaptively/
but in terms of potential usefulness - this is the most popular piece on my blog, the only post that I'll get random strangers messaging me about to say it helped them. Maybe it'll help you: https://thetetrapodinsufferable.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/its-not-you-its-cbt-on-behaving-maladaptively/
