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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

Mad in America

Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so. Pesky “mental illness.”

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

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Once those are under control, they can get still, slow down, and have an inner conversation to uncover the true anxiety at the heart of it all. 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. Siem: Thank you!

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Nine Actions to Mitigate Specialty Drug Costs

Inside Workplace Wellness

Characteristics typically include: Qualities that make for costly medication delivery, such as requirements for professional administration or special handling e.g., temperature control. who owns the results of the test--the patient or the entity that paid for it) get ironed out, it will change how formularies are constructed.

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

Either you must admit that you’re on honest person, weather pending, or you have to be flexible with social constructs like “sick” or “honest.” But we have two clues that influence such a choice: 1) What problem are they trying to solve and 2) How much control do they have over the situation? I’ll mention two. billion worldwide.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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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. Sue Meitner. Mortgage expert, entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author.

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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine

Mad in America

Those who controlled the factories, railroads, and later, financial institutions became the architects of society, shaping laws and norms to serve their interests. This concentration of power created a feedback loop: economic dominance enabled political control, which reinforced economic systems designed to perpetuate inequality.