In his book ›Capitalist Realism. Is There No Alternative?‹ (2009), cultural theorist Mark Fisher states, »that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies.«

He writes:

»By privatizing these [mental health] problems - treating them as if they were caused only by chemical imbalances in the individual's neurology and/or by their family background - any question of social systemic causation is ruled out. (...)
(...) if, as Deleuze and Guattari argue, schizophrenia is the condition that marks the outer edges of capitalism, then bi-polar disorder is the mental illness proper to the ›interior‹ of capitalism. With its ceaseless boom and bust cycles, capitalism is itself fundamentally and irreducibly bi-polar, periodically lurching between hyped-up mania (the irrational exuberance of ›bubble thinking‹) and depressive come-down. (The term ›economic depression‹ is no accident, of course).«

Listen to the radio play FORTUNA. Sport Art Politics (2018), in which Mark Fisher is quoted, or take a look at the project SICK IN EUROPE (2019)