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https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/mental-health/2018/09/12/what-a-society-design-for-well-being-looks-like>
"To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S.,
we must move beyond a focus on the individual and think of well-being as a
social issue. Both the World Health Organization and the United Nations have
made statements in the past decade that mental health is a social indicator,
requiring “social, as well as individual, solutions.” Indeed, WHO Europe stated
in 2009 that “[a] focus on social justice may provide an important corrective
to what has been seen as a growing overemphasis on individual pathology.” The
UN’s independent adviser Dainius Pūras reported in 2017 that “mental health
policies and services are in crisis—not a crisis of chemical imbalances, but of
power imbalances,” and that decision-making is controlled by “biomedical
gatekeepers,” whose outdated methods “perpetuate stigma and discrimination.”
Our economic system is a fundamental aspect of our social environment, and the
side effects of neoliberal capitalism are contributing to mass malaise."
Via
libramoon@pluspora.com.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
