Economic and ideological
A response to the book review by Todd Hamer of 'The Inner Level' by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett To challenge the notion that economic inequalities causing status anxiety are the only drivers of mental health problems within capitalism I would like to use a personal example and then broaden that out to include a more generalised view of psychotic disorders that go beyond the more common mental health conditions of anxiety and depression. From late teens onwards I suffered a mental health condition that left me for many years in a fearfully withdrawn state. Later out of curiosity when I...