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How Sleep Mist and Scented Candles Became Our Age’s Opium for the Masses
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How Sleep Mist and Scented Candles Became Our Age’s Opium for the Masses

Rebecca ClaytonFebruary 16, 2022February 16, 2022

‘Wellness’ and ‘mindfulness’ have become incorporated into the everyday reality of digital capitalism. But while they proclaim to free us from stressors and anxieties, they actually turn our personal wellbeing and neurobiology into just another commodity. 

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Corporations Mindfulness Neoliberalism Wellness
Can we really life hack our way out of depression?
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Can we really life hack our way out of depression?

Genevieve RichardsonJanuary 26, 2022January 26, 2022

Treating depression with lifestyle changes has become a mantra of the mental health community. But do mindfulness exercises, baths and better diets really help or are we just deflecting from the harmful effects that the social conditions of late capitalism can have on the individual? 

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Capitalism Depression LIfe Hack Mindfulness
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