When internal resources become as limited as external resources, those who lost the birth lottery have less chance of moving forward. For them, the challenge of the current mental health crisis may not only represent a stagnation of their socio-economic status, but may also lead to a setback in relation to the status achieved by their parents.
What do you do when you run out of power? When does getting out of bed become a burden? We know that we live in a world that generates a constant whirlwind of emotions and uncertainty. A world marked by a profound break from the social norms of the past. The speed of transformations, economic instability and information overload have created fertile ground for burnout. In light of this daily madness, not everyone has the resources to seek help. For most Brazilians, this simple conversation with a therapist goes too far.
What do you do when you run out of power? When does getting out of bed become a burden? While many of those with resources numb themselves with medications and psychotherapies to confront contemporary dilemmas, maintain a rhythm of relentless productivity and participate in the mad wheel of materialism, those born with few resources have increasing difficulty maintaining their mental health or simply seek to live with the pain. In such an adverse context, suffering is distributed unevenly. While some have the resources to numb the pain, others face it without any numbing.
What do you do when you run out of power? When does getting out of bed become a burden? There is also another type of inequality in disease. Those who belong to the more privileged classes can stop, seek treatment, and retreat. Those who live on the margins must continue, even if they are sick. And pain when he does not find shelter turns into isolation. Isolation turns into more suffering.
What do you do when you run out of power? When does getting out of bed become a burden? Is trying to numb the middle class and the poor with psychiatric medications the alternative? An expensive alternative, but an alternative nonetheless? Or should we start rethinking our collective lifestyles?
This is perhaps one of the major blind spots of our time, because in many cases we tend to insist on chemical responses and treatments for primarily social problems. In this way, we place the burden of collective illness on the shoulders of individuals. But mental health is not possible in a society that worships limitless performance, the superficiality of materialism, and, at the same time, despises care. Take care. And caring for others.
So, in the end, it remains an invitation… What if we began to treat contemporary distress not as a temporary aberration, but as a sign? Not as a temporary mismatch, but as a warning that something deeper is amiss?
What if we started by redefining what wealth actually is? What does it really mean to be successful?
The text is a tribute to the song “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley.
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