abolition of private property - not personal property nor private housing, but abolition of company-owned property in favour of universally accessible commons

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issues with models of mental health, and does capitalism create mental illness

yes mental health issues can be genetic
yes mental health issues are chemical and can often be treated by adjusting those chemicals
BUT
stress contributes to physical ailments
mental health issues ARE a physical ailments
poverty, overwork, conflict, war, etc are all huge sources of stress
so capitalism creates disorder were there was none by triggering certain genetic dispositions and chemical changes in the brain as well as denying the physical body the ability to heal and recover
secondarily, capitalism expects and nourishes only a very particular arrangement of neurology - human values vary more widely than the values of capitalism, and without this external force there are a lot of disorders that seem a lot less like disorders and much more like natural diversity
and then there is the third kind, the kind of mental state that impairs ability to socialise effectively, and that can and should be managed with any combination of chemical and non-chemical treatment that is available and appropriate, as humans are by necessity a social species and we need each other, regardless of capitalism (but capitalism still makes these kinds worse by encouraging competition and discouraging interdependence)
and then the fourth kind, where the disorder is one that is dangerous to the person suffering from it. These are the kind that would very much still exist without capitalism (but capitalism STILL makes worse!) And these can often be treated with chemical and non-chemical methods also.

Extra Mentions

I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity.#^58a38f

outliers

as veering from the ‘norm’, does statistical analysis favour dominant views in ways that are unethical. prescriptive and descriptive categorisation

Resources

Uncertain Archives (book)

medicalisation and pathologisation

what is to be considered diversity, what is to be considered ‘wrong’ (see outliers)

creation of a norm

“the category depression does not exist without the synthetic molecule of serotonin, the same way that clinical masculinity does not exist without synthetic testosterone.” - ‘Testo Junkie’ - Preciado (cited in Maggic, M. (published as Tsang, M) (2017) ‘Open Source Estrogen: From biomolecules to biopolitics… Hormones with institutional biopower.’)