nursingforsocialjustice

Deep frustration for the individualized focus of mental health services that distill social justice issues down to the mental health problems of the individual. I suppose this is the time of year when I have an existential crisis about the state of the mental health care system, the labelling, the othering, the medicalizing, the disordering, the stories we tell ourselves that make us feel a bit better about being complacent in acknowledging that the system is not working.

This idea that we do not reconcile genocide, we stop it. Alongside the idea that we cannot make small incremental changes to fix a system that is structured around violence, coercion, stigma, and othering.

This is where I am at today.

I can’t even.

Love,

Michelle D.

p.s.

We need to take a long hard look at where we came from.