Mental Health in Our Capitalist Construct By Nam Woon Kim (he/him)
even say this about every issue – but it’s
Mental health, especially the issue of men’s mental health, is a topic that seems to regularly rotate into popular conversation without ever reaching any kind of breakthrough. We nod and agree that the status quo isn’t good enough, that we need to tell men it’s okay to speak about their feelings, it’s okay to cry, and so on. Mental health is hardly the only issue that comes and goes without resolution – you could
conversation stop at these soundbites.
becoming more frustrating seeing the We need to be more ambitious. Poor mental health and its consequences are preventable if we look at the issue as a societal problem. Let’s consider first when and where mental health conversations can even actually happen. This may seem like a pedantic place to start but I want to start from the ground up to shift our
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