Written by We had a blog on Canva before. It was written close after the effect of “The Stellar” TTRPG that we created took its toll as well as life circumstances of Founder, Aleya Jobson. It may be peppered with opinion and some ill-effects of the writing process and reflect a perturbed mental state. That said, there’s still some good and useful stuff in there.
Enjoy.
Mental Health 27.05.2024
Mental healthcare is something I am personally impacted by. You are affected by the circumstances of patriarchal, specie-ist capitalism that trigger similar patterns of behavior across the populace and chemical arrangements often aided by gut bacteria which are affected by the hormones and antibiotic-fed meat products you have eaten. This is the mental health crisis summed up.
What actually happens instead is that the blame gets shifted almost exclusively to brain chemistry and upbringing (blame the parents – millennials as a result are reluctant to have kids given, you know, the doom-gloom thing) as though you don’t need to eat to replenish said chemicals, as though your circumstances don’t dictate what you feed it, not just through fuel but also through environment. Literally.
Oil, gas and plastic are nearly inescapable in today’s Reich. Your food comes wrapped in it. Sometimes all three heavy hitters, oil to transport it, plastic to wrap it, gas to cook it. Wow. And then you don’t eat all of it and it produces methane. Wow. This is why they say changing your diet is the number one thing you can do for the environment.
Anyway, I didn’t bathe more than once a month for three months because of a dream I had with Zendaya and me being named after a Dune character when she appeared in the dream, I followed the dream. I tried to be Carbon Neutral while not bathing and only realized, after, that I was avoiding PVC debris from the pipes.
Are mentally ill people dirty or desperate for plastic-free water?
Are anorexic people only trying to look like the magazine or is the food just too much of a dilemma?
Bipolar? Knowing how wonderful the world can be and despairing that it isn’t by default…?
What did the world smell like before oil? What did food taste like before plastic was in our soil and in the food? Does our body remember and yearn for yesteryear?
Do we on some level know and fighting our body makes the mind go haywire in some Cartesian nightmare?
And what of the Nazi ‘ubermensch’ that gets to escape these problems and truly be ‘heil’ healthy because they can afford to avoid toxins?
These questions are for you.
Later,
Aleya
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