Mental Health


How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
The Bridge Back to You
I Love You Don't Die
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
The Plans I Have for You
One Word, Six Letters
Right as Rain
The ADHD Field Guide for Adults
Shelved Hearts (Hearts of Willlowrun, #1)
Someone to Daydream About
Lightguard (Daughter of Sun Duology #1)
Need You Close (Second Chance Ranch, #3)
SAVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH : VOLUME 2 (Michaelson Family)
The Blue Dress
King of My Heart: A Hockey, Lovers-to-Enemies-to-Lovers, Small Town, Uncovered Romance (Games of Love Book 2)
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
The Mad Wife
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)
Redeeming 6 (Boys of Tommen, #4)
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5)
Law Maker (Aristocrats of London, #1)
Unbound (The Undone, #3)
Releasing 10 (Boys of Tommen, #6)
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Blue Sisters
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
Hello Beautiful
Upward Bound
The Bell Jar
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Turtles All the Way Down
All the Bright Places
I'm Glad My Mom Died
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Girl in Pieces
Girl, Interrupted
Thirteen Reasons Why
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Reasons to Stay Alive
Every Last Word

Mark Fisher
The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational p ...more
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Pete Walker
Perfectionism is the unparalleled defense for emotionally abandoned children. The existential unattainability of perfection saves the child from giving up, unless or until, scant success forces him to retreat into the depression of a dissociative disorder, or launches him hyperactively into an incipient conduct disorder. Perfectionism also provides a sense of meaning and direction for the powerless and unsupported child. In the guise of self-control, striving to be perfect offers a simulacrum of ...more
Pete Walker

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