Don't Tell Me to Just Breathe (full video)
Channel: Don't Tell Me To Just Breathe
Date: 2022-10-10

This beautiful and timely animation speaks to the spiralling levels of anxiety and depression the UK and other rich nations are experiencing by revealing the often silenced links between these mental health crises and the current economic system, including not only the increasing pressures upon people’s basic needs, but also the ‘capitalist realism’ that allows climate breakdown to unfold before our very eyes. The film ends by introducing a Wellbeing economy as a system that would function within social and environmental boundaries. 

The film was created by UK charity Swarm Dynamics (https://swarmdynamics.org) together with The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (https://cusp.ac.uk). Sharing this film may help others see the connections, and may help reduce the stigma still associated with anxiety and depression that's persist due to the dominant narrative of 'personal responsibility' for mental health.