mental illness hasn’t been destigmatised but commercialised
Sooo true.
You can’t have serious conversations about your mental illness and you can’t even mention having one of the more stigmatized mental illnesses.
But you can endure a long line of ads recommending medications, self-care products, gym memberships, self-help books, online seminars, crystals, plants, sunlight lamps and other overpriced shit that’s supposed to be good for your mental health but is mainly just there to take advantage of people who are at a vulnerable place in life. Disgusting.
Marta Russel called this “handicapitlaism” and identified it as one of the traps of bourgeoisie/free market disability rights activism