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@markhenick
As a mental health professional, this is in my wheelhouse. I discovered Vikram Patel, Sangath, and Friendship Benches around the same time as I was training for my Peer Specialist career. In 2017, I had a option to intern with the NYC Thrive 'friendship benches' but other people in my class got it. The US is part of the great colonizers for Western Bio-medical psychiatry. The world doesn't need more colonization. I think the community MH model is correct for many reasons. The article mentions the Community MH act on 1963 and sort of leaves out the fact that it never got funding for the community mental health part. This issue is the same today. No one wants to invest in MH. Or they only want to invest in the neoliberal part of they think of as cost-effective. And the carceral part. And that is racist. No one talks about how the current paradigms is racist or eugenicist. And not even effective. The whole focus in the article on psychiatry is a mistake but that's to be expected because of the West's influence. Or at least they should call it biopsyciatry because before pills, it was more about phenomenology. What they really meant to say is that they want to 'fix' people's 'brain diseases' by getting highly paid people to give them pills. It would benefit the global supply chain of Big Pharma. But they neglect to say how fracking expensive that would be. And that not even the West is going to shell out for that, let alone foisting it on the global south who is dirt poor. What is called 'Mental health" is more than brains. People deal with distress because of environmental factors (ACE, systems of oppression, lack of affordable housing, food, medical care). That is 'mental health care'. Or consider Johan Hari's "Anti-depressent Cow" story-- a poor man had life difficulties and became depressed and stopped farming. Someone gave him a cow to continue farming and he was no longer depressed.
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