Healing Isn’t Neutral: Why Mental Health Must Be Political in 2025

In today’s wellness culture, the loudest advice is often the most detached: “Let it go.” “Focus on yourself.” “Don’t make it political.”

But when your pain has a system behind it—when your depression is linked to historical trauma, structural racism, and generational erasure—neutrality isn’t healing. It’s gaslighting.

When Therapy Ignores Empire

Most Western therapy models were never designed for the colonized, the marginalized, or the historically silenced. They treat trauma as an isolated wound, not a reflection of society’s structure.

Fanon argued that the psyche of the oppressed is not sick—it is reacting. Reacting to being alienated from culture, denied voice, and pathologized for rage.

The Myth of Emotional Neutrality

Neutrality is often the mask of the dominant. When therapists avoid politics, they avoid the truths that shaped the client’s identity. They rush the healing, demand peace before justice, and preach regulation before rage.

But what if rage is the start of healing? What if clarity is forged in critique—not calm?

The Fanon Perspective in 2025

Today, we have AI therapists, algorithmic mood trackers, and cognitive chatbots. But very few are programmed to question systems. Even fewer can help you reclaim yourself in the aftermath of structural betrayal.

Fanon’s lens invites a new protocol: Healing not as adaptation, but as rebellion. As self-reconstruction. As remembering what the system told you to forget.