Much depression has social and political causes, not individual ones.

Evidence

This is really serious, I think. Since there are so many people who are depressed — and I maintain that the cause for much of this depression is social and political — then converting that depression into a political anger is an urgent political project. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2129

Categorization

• SEED: Could seed an essay on the politics of depression versus privatized treatment models.
• XREF: connects to: CBT and antidepressants contain depression without addressing its social causes. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2129; Medicalizing depression blocks political explanation of its systemic causes — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 46; Depression is a despecialization that ruptures the social bond — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 20 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Medicalizing depression blocks political explanation of its systemic causes #expands (0.94) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 46
• Only collective practice, not individual therapy, can address socially-caused distress #corroborates (0.93) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1947
• Depression mirrors capitalist realism, rendering collective problems as personal failures #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2217
• Depression results when meritocratic self-blame meets limited opportunity #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1605
• Privatized personal depression is being displaced by public political anger. #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1506
• Depression increasingly gets defined as illness, not difficulty, through biological reframing. #qualifies (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 162
• Depression is a despecialization that ruptures the social bond #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 20
• Depression is the self-exploiting subject’s loss of ability, an internalized war. #complicates (0.78) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 34
• The modern self experiences suffering without naming a specific cause. #expands (0.76) — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, 174
• Depression subtyping proceeded by biology and classification, not etiology #complicates (0.75) — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, 660
• Depression follows democracy’s lack of decisive closure #exemplifies (0.74) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 118
• Depression is reframed as a failure of flexibility, an illness of disaffiliation #complicates (0.73) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 157
• Depression constitutes a theory of the world, marshaling instances as evidence #complicates (0.71) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 138