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hating your job versus hating working, toilet seat etiquette, and more

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It’s a single stall restroom, and since we have relatively clean coworkers and a great custodian, it’s usually quite clean. But this is sort of like the long-running battle to keep office kitchens clean; it’s just really hard to get everyone to agree on one standard and then enforce that standard.

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Human

Mad in America

I thought that if I consulted with another psychiatrist to alter my medication, I would eventually feel almost human. He diagnosed me with ‘Major Depressive Disorder’ after a twenty-minute consultation and prescribed me my first ‘antidepressant’, Venlafaxine. He never asked me why I cried. I thought that they would understand.

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Withdrawal Psychosis and the Aftermath of Tragedy

Mad in America

I became tearful while relating the story during the consultation and my doctor said he considered me to be ‘depressed.’ In talking to him, I thought he would back me up and give me a clean bill of mental health. Back in 1995, on the pharmaceutical drugs, I deteriorated.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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In the nonprofit sector, she launched and consulted for 320 nonprofit organizations in 31 states, and raised more than $20 million for community causes and charities. Entrepreneur, consultant. Dave Conord is a growth strategist, business leader and consultant. Dave Conord.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

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Before coming to Balaji, Sunita had consulted doctors and tried medicines. Where most Hindu temples are clean and orderly, this one isn’t. Depression and anxiety were proof that you had a mind deep and dark enough to need pharmaceuticals to keep the demons at bay. So, no, I felt nothing until I realized the spirit was gone.

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SUCCESS’ 2025 Women of Influence

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An experienced actress, consultant and facilitator, Ackerman is the writer, director, producer and performer of the critically acclaimed one-woman show, Flowers Arent Enough. Brown Personal Growth Consultant, Author A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Brown is a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, U.S.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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The four visitors proposed to give me $27,000 (equivalent to $133,348 today) to use for my salary, consulting fees, and ad hoc secretarial support for the final rewrite. Not one person accepted consulting money. Now they were able to pay bills, cook, and clean, generally take care of themselves, and often others.