We Are Not the Crisis. The Mental Health System Is.

Read the full article on Medium:

https://medium.com/@lucywishart1/we-are-not-the-crisis-the-mental-health-system-is-b52c90367942

They say we’re in a mental health crisis.

But what if the crisis isn’t in us?

What if the real problem is a system that pathologises pain, offers containment instead of care, and calls it compassion?

We are not fragile — we’re aware.

And we’re done being treated like symptoms.

The collapse we’re seeing isn’t personal.

It’s structural.

And it’s been coming for a long time.