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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

She is co-author, with Robert Whitaker, of Psychiatry under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform. When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

This isn’t an anxiety to pathologize or suppress, nor is it something we can avoid by just eating gluten-free food or avoiding caffeine. Our hormones, our gut health, micronutrient deficiencies, the degree to which we have inflammatory molecules coursing through our bloodstream—there’s an enormous influence from food.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. It’s not just the docs, non-medical prescribers are affected, and lots of us are also under the influence. What’s an Assay? It’s the hypnosis.

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

Mad in America

This shift began with the influence of the American Psychiatric Association’s third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III), published in 1980. These often include sleep deprivation, eating bitter food, hard physical labor, and sometimes even physical restraint. More often than not, this helps them give birth.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

Mad in America

She is also an award-winning chef and Food Network Chopped Champion. It doesn’t matter what the outside influence or the diagnosis is, you are still in control of your own life. So I just thought that maybe I needed to change pharmaceuticals, not change who I was and my perspective. It’s how we all view the world.

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

Critical factors such as lifestyle habits and environmental influences, known as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) , often play a more substantial role. SDOH are  nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. What happens at work influences life; what happens in life shows up at work.

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is it weird to stretch at work, is declining a reference call a red flag, and more

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If I must stretch, he instructed me to do it in open areas like the break room (where people microwave their food), outside of people’s offices by couches, or formally book a conference room (which come in half hour blocks). He requested I not stretch because it is weird and could potentially make coworkers feel uncomfortable.