Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis - James Davies
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Capitalism
Depression
Mental Health
Neoliberalism
Psychology
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A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness.
In Britain alone, more than 20 per cent of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500 per cent since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity.
Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain.
Urgent and persuasive, Sedated systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business - and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.
A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness.
In Britain alone, more than 20 per cent of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500 per cent since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity.
Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain.
Urgent and persuasive, Sedated systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business - and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.
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This post has 21 comments with rating of 4.4/5
July 24th, 2021
thank you
July 24th, 2021
Jeeze, is EVERYTHING capitalism’s fault? Stub your toe? The story of how Capitalism cost everyone their balance and it’s wobbly stumbling impact on oppression!
July 24th, 2021
@daenigma100 Thanks for another great upload!
July 24th, 2021
Thanks a lot as always, daenigma.
July 25th, 2021
From Pregnancy to Polio, its Capitalism’s fault.
Bee stung me. Girlfriend got pregnant by another guy Capitalism’s fault.
Does anyone by this crap!??
Would anyone even by this buy this tripe?
July 25th, 2021
wheresmycannon just got triggered big time - QUICK! lets get him to a safe-space. Fanboy got a boo boo. I keep running into these hyper sensitive capitalism disciples everywhere. I think these super defensive fanboys are acting out their insecurities because they know their beloved ideology/religion if failing. I’m tired of constantly having to bail out ‘capitalist’ corporations. The GFC 2008 was capitalism failing. It failed losers. If not for absurd amounts of debt & printing money like gang busters we would be living in collapsed societies, but make no mistake - it’s coming. There was no reform & they just carried on doing more of the same. They kicked the can because they are a stupid one trick pony. Most of the debt will never be repaid. The US will default & the fanboys will end up living under an overpass eating rat meat stew while telling the kids Golden Age capitalism stories….”and we even had this thing called “Super Size”….those were the days.
I remember things started to go downhill not long after the capitalists ruined our weekly family day by successfully lobbying for Sunday shopping. Capitalism is insatiable & like any other cancer it will continue to consume & infect until there is nothing left or it kills the host (Earth). Capitalists are the most hardcore addicts in human history.
July 25th, 2021
@apollo60
“Would anyone even by this buy this tripe?”
I know! Books, eh? Why do people even bother! At least, I think that’s what you said. As usual, your post is the written equivalent of dribbling down your shirt.
I can see you’ve gotten very far in life without learning anything.
July 25th, 2021
My pets are on doggie prozac. All because of (u guessed it) capitalism. And what’s goin’ on with those proletariat lads. It’s really woof.
July 25th, 2021
Capitalism gives us depression.
Socialism gives us oppression.
I’ll vote for the one that leaves us in control of both factors.
Viva la capitalism
July 25th, 2021
@bokeh it isn’t a case of having one or the other, it’s a case of recognizing that currently society has evolved faster than the human brain’s ability to adapt and evolve properly. Which is why people end up with a fight or flight stress response when faced with something as seemingly trivial as paperwork.
Some people are more susceptible to that kind of response, which ought to be seen as natural. But instead it’s seen as an abnormality, and they’re given a bunch of medications to increase their tolerance to situations humans shouldn’t be in in the first place.
We’re just cave people with debt and technology. It’s no wonder stress, anxiety and depression are commonplace.
July 25th, 2021
Hear, hear, Jack. Although our ancestors (trog or otherwise) certainly faced myriad stressful (life-threatening) situations, and had the abbreviated lifespans to testify to that. Self-medication also featured.
The modern mental health crisis might also have something to do with identifying/recruiting more pathologies, and matching them to novel drug therapies.
July 25th, 2021
Markets are great for lots of things, but they don’t work in the context of medical care because buyers have very high to infinite incentive and little to no evaluative context. So when doctors offer SSRIs or opiates they take them, and when strangers advertise homeopathy or vitamin supplements they take those as well.
July 25th, 2021
“by sedating people to the causes and solutions for their socially rooted distress – both literally and ideologically – our mental health sector has stilled the impulse for social reform, which has distracted people from the real origins of their despair, and has favoured results that are primarily economic while presiding over the worst outcomes in our health care system” - Dr James Davies
Seems like a fairly reasonable conclusion. Life has problems, and too often people are given medication so as to better tolerate the symptoms rather than treating the cause.
July 25th, 2021
Your mental health crisis, not ours, Mr. Davies!
July 27th, 2021
Shut up Caesar. Noone wants your input.
July 27th, 2021
“Input” - that’s a big boy word for ya!
July 27th, 2021
Can anyone doubt that the free market is responsible? Capitalism is all about commodification… snake oil would prolly still b a big business if it wasnt for big-bad government regulation (eek not regulation).
Not to mention deaths of despair, which are a direct result of capitalism and the unprecedented inequality.
But
August 1st, 2021
@bokeh
Unless you’re the likes of Bezos or Musk, capitalism leaves you in control of nothing. You’re a pleb. A prole. A pawn. Woe betide you if you’re in their way or have something they want.
March 22nd, 2023
Please seed! ❤️
September 14th, 2023
To the w*nkers who insist on showing everyone how salty they are about this book: no one is forcing you to download or listen to it. Feel free to go back to “Rule Britania”.
It’s as if they need to tell everyone how much they don’t agree with its premise. We don’t care, mate. Move on.
Regarding the book itself, I just read an interview with the author in Psychology Today, where it was discussed. An interesting quote:
“This misuse of the mental illness narrative I think illustrates the essence of how depoliticization works: It effectively turns socially caused problems into internal dysfunctions, making the “self” the site of reform and thereby exonerating harmful social, corporate, or political arrangements and so by implication, helping nullify in people the forces that push for social change.”
February 18th, 2024
The greatest lie ever told is that Capitalism makes everyone rich and happy. The truth is capitalism makes a minority of people rich (and possibly happy) but the rest are condemned to misery. We are so many people in capitalist societies taking antidepressants, anxiolytics, antipsychotics, opioids, stimulants (ADD medication) and so on. happy people don’t need to take mind altering drugs.
A worldwide uprising against the capitalist system in needed. They will have nowhere to run, and nowhere to park the money they have stolen from others.
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