dilbert1
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I'm not convinced that's true.
I think he’s always made the point that therapy, “self help,” SSRIs and other individual solutions to mental health issues have value in different contexts for different people. But when you look at the historical trends in depression and anxiety, there’s clearly a correlation with capitalism’s ravaging of the social world. The danger of the “self help” model becoming predominant is the neoliberal model of individualizing responsibility, so you’re just a morally bankrupt layabout if you can’t get yout shit together. Slippery slope, at the end of which you get a Jordan peterson advising you to clean your room and stick your depoliticized head in the sand (or else blame the feminist marxist post-structuralist historical materialist boogeymen)