Class and Mental Illness

As you can likely imagine many components of identity and social classification influences not only how people experience mental distress/illness, but also how they are perceived and treated by others. Class is but just one of many components that influence the perception of people with mental illness. From an intersectional perspective class impacts would also be multiplied by other marginalized identities (e.g., race, gender, sexuality, work status, education status, etc.)⠀
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[ID: Beige background with blue text which reads: "The degree to which a person with mental illness is perceived as responsible for their mental health and behaviours is often contingent on the person's class and wealth.⠀
Responsibility/agency for one's behaviours are often emphasized for mentally ill people who are also indexed as poor. Whereas mentally ill people from middle and upper-middle class backgrounds are often perceived as lacking agency." End of description.]

Class and mental illness description.