Seeing Wetiko

That ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to

our troubles are driven by one or all of these factors: Biology and the expansion of the human population A culture of domination and exploitation Rapacious capitalism and the blind pursuit of profit Runaway technological development Shortsighted individual psychology, driven by Paleolithic impulses