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Worsening mental health outcomes are often spoken about as if they are the fault of the individual, but is insecure mental health a natural outcome of an insecure economy?
And does the feedback work both ways - insecure economies cause people to be scared, easily manipulated, and individualistic, which prevents ordinary people from uniting and fighting back as a class?
Also a little on my own historical struggles with the economy and mental health, both in the past and now.
"In a mad world, only the mad are sane" ~ Akira Kurosawa
Take care of yourselves and each other
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00:00 Introduction
03:31 How mental health is affected by the economy
04:55 My argument in less than 1 minute
06:15 Mental health is a symptom of something bigger
09:50 Why deteriorating mental health makes political action so hard
16:00 More and more people know collapse is coming
20:13 Hard work no longer pays
22:24 Personal struggles
25:09 What can we do?
30:17 Why it's so urgent
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Worsening mental health outcomes are often spoken about as if they are the fault of the individual, but is insecure mental health a natural outcome of an insecure economy?
And does the feedback work both ways - insecure economies cause people to be scared, easily manipulated, and individualistic, which prevents ordinary people from uniting and fighting back as a class?
Also a little on my own historical struggles with the economy and mental health, both in the past and now.
"In a mad world, only the mad are sane" ~ Akira Kurosawa
Take care of yourselves and each other
xx
––––––
00:00 Introduction
03:31 How mental health is affected by the economy
04:55 My argument in less than 1 minute
06:15 Mental health is a symptom of something bigger
09:50 Why deteriorating mental health makes political action so hard
16:00 More and more people know collapse is coming
20:13 Hard work no longer pays
22:24 Personal struggles
25:09 What can we do?
30:17 Why it's so urgent
–––––––
JOIN OUR MAILING LIST – https://mailchi.mp/e27e37c9ebb4/get-garys-new-newsletter
GET THE TRADING GAME – penguin.co.uk/books/455809/the-trading-game-by-stevenson-gary/9781802062731
SUPPORT US ON PATREON – patreon.com/garyseconomics
SPOTIFY – open.spotify.com/show/2807p01KIe4RRFjRTB5o25
INSTAGRAM – instagram.com/garyseconomics
TIKTOK – tiktok.com/@garyseconomics
BLUESKY – https://bsky.app/profile/garyseconomics.bsky.social
X – twitter.com/garyseconomics
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