cipation. Treating depression as an individual disease is part of a climate of denial that allows the ongoing rape of democracy by capital. If we weren't taking Prozac, we'd be marching in the streets.
Depression is a mismatch between people's legitimate expectation that modes of fulfilling participation and cooperation be the mainstay of their lives, and the collapse of society's ability to provide opportunities for fulfilling participation.
(The above is my opinion in my language (JJM). Here is an article by Olivia Goldhill writing in Quartz last week.)
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