The Consequences of Mental Health Awareness

Exploring the medicalization, depoliticization, and stigmatization of mental illnesses

Willa Zhou
WILLA
Published in
7 min readJul 9, 2021

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Big Pharma has a “pattern of marketing diseases” to sell more psychiatric drugs (Photo by Myriam Zilles)

In today’s globalized, hypercompetitive world, more and more people are facing mental health issues. Mental health awareness has, therefore, also become more common. There is even a World Mental Health Day, a day for mental health awareness and…

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