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>Can you elaborate more on why self-help is self-induced slavery?
It's classic neoliberal disenfranchisement, where one portends that the problem is (You) and that individual agency is somehow supposed to allow you to disregard the onslaught of material reality as well as classist discrimination. The mental health industry is another arm of this, where withdrawal or resistance to social expectation is treated as illness in need of being either medicated or forced compliance to conditioning techniques, sometimes by depriving you of free movement through institutionalization.