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Mental Health In the Solarpunk community?
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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It's been documented that mental health is a serious issue in the anarchist community - Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism. Ideas developed among anarchists focusing on class struggle may have application to the general solarpunk community as well.
Disclaimer, I only read both of these diagonally.
The first, while focusing on a capitalism lens, isn't a unique problem. It's an alienation effect possible in any community. Reducing barriers to migration and employment can reduce it on a macro scale. On the micro scale it's just the human condition.
The second, while certainly packaged toward a specific audience, does not differ from conventional thinking or guidance on mental health.
Would anarchists even cease to exist in solarpunk? It should just be a change of focus from a capitalist status quo to a solarpunk status quo. This distention is healthy for any society.