re: #211 A Mom Anon

Another problem is that we lack comprehensive solutions for many mental health problems because they’re sociological problems.

Someone who is working a dead-end job and stressed out all the time and develops depression and low self-esteem? The main problem he has is that he’s in a society that prizes wealth above almost everything else and he’s at the bottom of that society, and he knows it, and so he’s going to feel stressed out and depressed. Maybe he’s the rare person that can become zen and philosophical about it, but many people have mental health issues stemming directly from their correct knowledge of their place in society.

Baldwin wrote a lot about this, about seeing black people actually go crazy trying to navigate the system of entrenched white power and carve out decent lives for themselves.

Everyone should read more Baldwin.