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When siblings have different access to mental healthcare

My brother and I both have depression and anxiety but he has a job with benefits and I don't — he keeps offering to help pay for my treatment but every conversation about it makes me feel like the family failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic disparities within families create hierarchies of who deserves wellness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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