Author: Grizzled Bipolar Veteran: Jason Miller
50 plus years old. 43 years of the insane misery of untreated or under-treated Bipolar Disorder 2. Seven plus years of sane, sober, useful, and joyful living. Here to help fellow sufferers. I owe a debt. Paying it forward. God willing.
You Can’t Do Both
How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness
He argues, as the French philosopher Michel Foucault did before him, that the birth of stigma is inseparable from the birth of capitalism, of colonialism, of industrialization and of the slave trade. Stigma, in other words, consists of the act of branding, which, in the case of enslavement, could be literal. In creating labels such … Continue reading How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness