World Mental Health Day

I’m thinking a lot about mental health and how so much anxiety and depression is a side effect of the capitalist, racist, misogynist, homophobic system. And today I can find only my anger about it, but not words.
What Emily Price wrote is so beautiful and important, I want to share it with everyone — see below. Thank you for this. ❤️
And everyone else out there feeling angry, sad, sick: I love you and believe in you and I’m committed to making this world better with you.
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#Repost @thevoluptuouswitch
Art by @chiefladybird
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“The solution to the mental health crisis, and there is one, is not individual. Systemic oppression and its products are the cause of most mental illness. We will not heal 'mental health crisis' without decolonizing, dismantling cisheteropatriarchy, and providing monetary/land reparations to marginalized people. Mental health is often, and sometimes understandably, represented as a reason we struggle to participate in liberation. As we find ourselves under the crushing weight of late capitalism, it can feel impossible to figure out how to just survive on our own, and then we feel inequipped to struggle for justice. And we are right: we cannot heal and survive on our own. Without dismantling systems of oppression we will *never* heal the mental health crisis. They are linked and born of one another. I am here for women, femmes, queers, GNC and trans, black/brown/native folks surviving, healing, and thriving. I am not here for taking examples of toxic white supremacist patriarchy and violence in the news and calling that the 'mental health crisis'. The real mental health crisis is the crisis to survive under white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy while late capitalism intentionally makes care inaccessible. The solution to these problems is not in reform of oppressive systems or personal privilege, but in entirely dismantling that which oppresses us. Our lives, minds, and hearts depend on actual liberation. The solutions to mental health crisis are outside the systems we currently have. Mental illness is not separate. It is based in oppression.”
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artwork 'Poison' by @ chiefladybird #worldmentalhealthday