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Originally Posted by Homeira
Maybe a controversial question... While mental illness is a lot about brain chemistry, and certain factors are genetic, and some has to do with brain-funktion, I also believe that a lot of factors in our society worsen our symptoms, cause mental illness to debut, and make people suffer from a lot of anguish and depression. As well as a lot of theraphy is focused on making people with MI function better in society. Well, are we really to be made to believe that the society that might have caused a lot of problems for us, is one that we should strive to conform into? I wonder what others think about this issue.
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The ills of the society such as poverty, social injustices, discrimination etc are a great contributing factor in developing mental illness if not the major one. Our environment shapes our brain chemistry. The "genes" theory has no scientific prove whatsoever and yet it's being pushed on people by the mass media.
You may appreciate this article on the subject
Capitalism is My ?Mental Illness? | Love Moves You
Also watch videos of Dr. Gabor Mate, who explains the connection between mental problems of individuals and the environment they live in.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, I think, once said: "You can't make someone healthy by helping them to adjust to the sick society" and ours is a sick society. If we want to get better individually, we can't do it without changing the society as a whole.