Mental health problems are captured discontent that should be redirected at Capital

Evidence

We must convert widespread mental health problems from medicalized conditions into effective antagonisms. Affective disorders are forms of captured discontent; this disaffection can and must be channeled outwards, directed towards its real cause, Capital. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 164

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the case for treating depression/anxiety epidemics not as medical pathologies to be cured but as stored political energy — the politics of psychiatric diagnosis.
• XREF: connects to: Under knowledge capitalism, idleness gets absorbed into producing the person as Capital. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 115; Mental illness is captured discontent that points toward a constructive austerity. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 164; Capital privatizes stress as illness then profits from treating it (+5 more)

Related

• Mental illness is captured discontent that points toward a constructive austerity. (similarity 0.91)
• Depression and anxiety are captured forms of discontent that rationing and austerity could release. (similarity 0.86)
• Capital privatizes stress as illness then profits from treating it (similarity 0.85)
• Biochemical explanations of mental illness serve capitalism by depoliticizing suffering (similarity 0.84)
• Treating mental illness as brain chemistry depoliticizes it and serves capitalist interests (similarity 0.83)
• Stress has been privatized, reframing systemic dysfunction as individual illness (similarity 0.83)
• Biologizing mental illness conveniently depoliticizes its social causes (similarity 0.82)
• Medicalizing depression blocks political explanation of its systemic causes (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost (similarity 0.81)
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness (similarity 0.80)
• Legitimate workplace grievances get pathologised as individual mental illness (similarity 0.79)
• Privatized personal depression is being displaced by public political anger. (similarity 0.79)
• Neoliberalism converts political antagonisms into individualised medical conditions. (similarity 0.79)
• Depression is now the most-treated condition in Britain’s NHS (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Mental illness is captured discontent that points toward a constructive austerity. #expands (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 164
• Depression and anxiety are captured forms of discontent that rationing and austerity could release. #exemplifies (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 164
• Capital privatizes stress as illness then profits from treating it #expands (0.90)
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #expands (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Legitimate workplace grievances get pathologised as individual mental illness #exemplifies (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2493
• Capital needs workers dejected enough to work but not despairing enough to rebel #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1829
• Treating mental illness as brain chemistry depoliticizes it and serves capitalist interests #qualifies (0.70) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 82