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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

But society then became fully entrenched in the idea that mental health is a genetic or a chemical imbalance, which worked too well for pharmaceutical marketing. We need nourishing sleep, sunshine, movement, community, quality food, clean water, and air. This creates an opportunity to work through them constructively.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Through the four businesses she has founded, which span strategic services, design, construction and events, Burgess helps solve problems for good and create spaces and events that make you feel happy. She lived in a shelter for six months and cleaned houses, bathrooms and offices—but never lost focus of her goal to own a business someday.

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Companies are quietly altering their DEI programs in the wake of legal action

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In February, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer dropped race-based eligibility requirements for a fellowship program designed for college students of Black, Latino, and Native American descent, even though a judge had dismissed a lawsuit against the program two months earlier. The lawsuit seeks to dismantle the U.S.

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Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”

Mad in America

I did not wash and clean myself and do my hair and shave, so I was not fine to look at. Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. How did you manage to do it? Peter: Oh, this is a strange story. I was a zombie.