Philosophical Critique of Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges

This book is a philosophical inquiry into psychological and emotional pain—specifically, the pain experienced by those who live with mental distress and use substances to cope. It challenges how society misreads this pain, reducing it to diagnoses, deviance, or dysfunction. Drawing on critical realism, phenomenology, and lived experience, the book argues that such pain is not a symptom to be silen...