so, like, obviously Hatt Maig is not particularly useful apart from maybe a first step for people who& #39;ve literally never thought about mental illness before (and even then, hardly) but what& #39;s your favourite critical/good/interesting mental health writing?

this by @ofthesparrows, about mental health and & #39;productivity& #39; 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">https://www.peachtreepeartree.com/blog/2019...

I& #39;ve learned so much from @KGuilaine& #39;s twitter/blog about all the ways in which mental health services are designed by and for white people, and don& #39;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& #39;t cope with difference, and the way that overlaps with transness and queerness, and it was fucking great. Listen/watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42myXsr9TeE&ab_channel=VersoBooks">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a beautiful book which absolutely refuses to separate and abstract & #39;mental illness& #39; from its complex, lived, classed, radicalised contexts: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work">https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/C...

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 ownhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎺" title="Trompete" aria-label="Emoji: Trompete"> but in terms of potential usefulness - this is the most popular piece on my blog, the only post that I& #39;ll get random strangers messaging me about to say it helped them. Maybe it& #39;ll help you: https://thetetrapodinsufferable.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/its-not-you-its-cbt-on-behaving-maladaptively/">https://thetetrapodinsufferable.wordpress.com/2019/05/2...