The pathologization of emotion has been on the march for decades, especially in the U.S., where fully one sixth of the adult population takes an antidepressant or other psychiatric drug. But with depression dubiously “conquered” by medication—as both diagnosis rates and suicides are at an all-time high—the mental-health industry has identified yet a new target: loneliness. With pharmaceutical and even technological “cures” in the pipeline for this “condition,” once considered part of normal human emotional experience but now framed as a dire…
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Helen Buyniski is a journalist and photographer based in New York City. She covers politics and sociology with a focus on propaganda and other systems of behavioral control. Motivated by a desire to expose injustice and hypocrisy and speak truth to power, she believes ending war and protecting free speech are the most important issues we face. Her work has appeared on RT, Global Research, Progressive Radio Network, No Lies Radio, and Veterans Today.
