Are We Treating Symptoms to Preserve a Dysfunctional System?
If despair, anxiety, and burnout are explained as chemical imbalances, what happens to the society that creates them? When suffering is treated as something wrong inside an individual brain, what shared responsibility quietly disappears?
Mental health care today often focuses on medication, diagnoses, and personal coping tools. These can be useful. But they also raise a simple question: are we helping people heal, or helping them endure conditions that never change? Long working hours, financial stress, loneliness, insecurity, and constant pressure are often taken as “normal,” while distress is treated as a personal problem.
This month, we’ll talk about where we draw the line between personal responsibility and social responsibility. Is despair a personal weakness, a medical issue, or a reasonable response to the way we’ve organised modern life? And what do we lose when problems that affect many of us are treated as private struggles instead of shared ones?
No experts and no slides. A casual conversation about mental health, responsibility, and whether fixing people has become easier than fixing society.
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