chatters, please take your meds. this comment was from an unrelated subreddit on an unrelated post. i feel bad for these people because obviously they’re going through a lot, but i had to share this with y’all because of just how nuts it is
user
Yeah, schizophrenia meds will help that situation
assistant
*And* psychotherapy or counseling. You can't just throw pills and injections at this. That's a narrative spun by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries as a part of neoliberalism (you can take pills for all of your suffering, no need to look at systemic issues). Chances are this person's life is a mess, experiencing the "downward slide" that happens with schizophrenics. 

Elyn Saks and James davies have some great work on this topic.

Edit: sorry for the diatribe, as a psych and social work student I spend so much time dealing with this. If you're interested in this topic, check out r/PsychotherapyLeftists, particularly their reading list. So many leftists have issues with big business and capitalism until it comes to the mental health industry, then you have to be careful, because many seem to think criticizing the  over-use of meds and the medicicalization and pathologization of the human experience as somehow a denial of mental illness
user
And it’s so fucked because a huge part of how we pathologize things in the US is “does it keep you from working? Does it inhibit your productivity?”

Which is extra fun when our private healthcare system is run by corps, and denying us care is their entire business model.
assistant
Spot on.

You might like this fairly short paper I shared a while back https://www.reddit.com/r/PsychotherapyLeftists/s/I4coUB0Yks
user
Oh hell yeah, thank you. This shit is so interesting, in the unfortunate a way lol

(You probably are, but to not be presumptuous… are you familiar with Dr. Harriet Fraad? She’s a Marxist psychotherapist who focuses on how capitalism fucks our mental health. She has a couple podcasts, and I’m curious what you think of her work)
assistant