Mental ill health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says
Mental ill health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says
Institute for Fiscal Studies says half of the rise in working-age people claiming the benefit last year is linked to mental health
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Capitalism loves to point at mental health - especially after spending decades shaping public views and systemic approaches mental health to be a personal defect and issue.
9x out of 10 psychopathology done thoroughly rather than just ticking off some symptoms in the DSM/ICD identifies above psychological or biological factors the main factor in mental health struggles is sociological.
Simply put: society is depressing people, society is making people anxious... And behind all that it is capitalism that dictates that success and survival is based on ability to produce. And if you fail to produce the whole system is stacked against you to reduce your ability to function mentally.
For folks interested in this I highly recommend checking out Lucy Johnson of the BPS (British Psychological Society)'s Power Threat Meaning Framework for a radical new way to see mental health.