Khameer Kidia

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Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health · The Empire of Madness: Why Psychiatry Must Rethink Human Suffering - An Interview with Khameer Kidia · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

She was working three jobs.

She had two children.

She was a single mother, living on the edges of poverty herself.

Absolutely, what we would call thinking too much in Zimbabwe.

But you know, what I realized that, you know, certain kinds of debt affect marginalized people more.

Think about payday loans, which are these short-term, high-interest predatory loans that target poor people.

Um, you know, they end up driving those poor people into crippling debt that they struggle to pay back and trying to.

Meet the demands of paying that debt is something that causes a high level of stress.

And you know, it's associated with inflammation, anxiety, depression, all sorts of mental distress.

And that's like kind of like this really the the way that debt actually affects people on a um affects marginalized people on an individual level.

But if you think about it, debt

Is a really, it's a moral construct.

The idea that we have to pay it back, this ethical obligation that this is something that needs to be paid, is something that is constructed by a society that uses debt in ways that empower some people and disempower others.

You know, there are other kinds of debt that rich people get to take out that end up making them wealthier.

So you can't really think about debt.

As this neutral thing that we must do.

We have to start to really question the idea of debt itself.

And medical debt is a problem that in the United States has really gotten completely out of hand.

There are so many people struggling to pay back their medical debts after, you know, small procedures or trips to the emergency department.

governments that have been trying to buy people's medical debt and get rid of it.

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