Chameleon Magazine

 🧠💷🚫It seems mental health is very real—if you’re famous, royal, or on the Cabinet payroll. If you’re rich and miserable, it’s trauma. If you’re poor and struggling? It’s suspicious. 🕵️‍♂️

So here we are in 2025, where mental health awareness is now a luxury brand, paraded on TV by celebs and ex-royals while actual working-class people are told, “Snap out of it or lose your benefits.”

🎭 “I Had Anxiety, So I Got a Netflix Deal”—Meanwhile in Hull…

Turn on the telly and it’s wall-to-wall sob stories: actors, influencers, ex-senior royals (cough Harry & Meghan*) unburdening themselves with soft lighting, piano music, and book deals. It’s all “my truth,” “my trauma,” and “I needed space to heal from the paparazzi.” 📸💔

Meanwhile, people with actual life-threatening depression, PTSD from poverty, anxiety from zero-hours work, or grief from waiting lists longer than the King’s birthday parade… are being told that unless a government-approved GP signs off, their suffering doesn’t count.

This isn’t a health policy—it’s a purge in slow motion.

Too many poor people are sick? Solution: redesign the system so their sickness doesn’t count.

If you’re not photogenic, political, or privately insured, your mental health gets filed under:

“Not Believable – Refer to Sanctions Team.”

And let’s be real: Labour and Conservatives alike are nodding along like this makes perfect sense. Because no one in power actually wants to open the floodgates of truth—that poverty is a mental health crisis, not a character flaw.

Instead, we get:

🩺 Mental health, if approved by a department.

💸 Recovery, only if you’re economically productive.

🧾 Welfare, only if you can win a battle royale of paperwork with a DWP “wellness checker.”

🧠 Challenges 🧠

When did mental health become an exclusive club? Why are we turning suffering into a means-tested performance review? And can we really claim to be a “modern society” when the sickest are punished hardest?

💬 Get in the comments. Whether you’ve been through it, seen it, or are just fed up with the hypocrisy—your voice matters here.

👇 Comment, like, and share—because mental health isn’t a luxury.

Best takes will be featured in the next issue of the magazine. 🧠🔥