Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals and gives the average person a million different things to worry about. I mainly talk about anxiety and depression here, although I fully acknowledge that there's so much more to cover than just that, both in terms of mental illness and in terms of societal analysis. Chronic stress at work linked to high blood pressure: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1745/1/bmj... Anxiety Disorders Association of America 2006 survey: http://www.adaa.org/workplace-stress-... 700,000 workers in the UK on zero-hour contracts: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bus... Fearing the brown envelope: Sickness benefits and welfare reform http://www.newstatesman.com/economics... Work Capability Assessments linked with mental health problems: http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/201... Gallup employee engagement survey: http://www.gallup.com/poll/165269/wor... Rates of mental disorder among the homeless population: http://www.crisis.org.uk/data/files/p... Review of evidence concerning security of tenure, maintenance, community etc: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... 19 million vacant homes in America: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04... Information on gentrification: http://www.acphd.org/media/341554/dev... Higher rates of mental illness and substance dependence among economically disenfranchised groups: http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/aptrcp... Heroin use in Muirhouse and the AIDS epidemic: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic... Mental illness across the globe: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-top... How self-directed activities improve well-being: http://www.examiner.com/article/how-h... Hobbies for stress relief: http://stress.about.com/od/funandgame...
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