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When mental health treatment ignores material reality

My therapist keeps suggesting mindfulness apps and meditation retreats and I don't know how to tell her that anxiety about rent isn't something I can breathe away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic interventions that bypass economic stressors can inadvertently blame individuals for structurally induced suffering.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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