Legitimate workplace grievances get pathologised as individual mental illness

Evidence

The anger that you’ve been showing towards management can only be a sign that you are unwell. A little unbalanced. … Don’t worry. No one is attacking you. We’re all here to help. … If I say management is conspiring against me will that prove I am mad? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2493

Categorization

• XREF: Builds directly on ch125 anti-psychiatry decline tracking capitalist realism’s rise and the therapeutic co-optation of consciousness-raising in ch118, plus ch103 health services replacing trade unions as stress-management institutions. — connects to: Mental illness is captured discontent that points toward a constructive austerity. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 164; Biologizing mental illness conveniently depoliticizes its social causes — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 82; Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1601 (+1 more)
• ADDENDUM: Relevant as evidence for how institutions weaponize psychological diagnosis against worker resistance, adjacent to the complaint/authority themes.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Biologizing mental illness conveniently depoliticizes its social causes #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 82