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10 Jobs With a Good Work-Life Balance: Careers That Let You Thrive

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Working remotely means less commute time and more control over how you manage your time for other activities, even if you work in a demanding workplace. Jobs That Advertise Flexibility Look for job postings that explicitly mention flexibility. Librarian Librarians are rarely required to work overtime or extra shifts. .”

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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

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In 2018, a study of 521 depressed patients in Switzerland, who were followed from when they were 20 years old until they were 50 years old, found that taking an antidepressant at some point during that period was associated with worse outcomes at the end of the study, even when controlling for initial symptoms and other factors.

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Tobacco-Related Health Disparities: A Summary of the U.S. Surgeon General’s New Report

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Factors that influence individual tobacco use include: Poverty Geographic location Access to healthcare Exposure to tobacco advertising Social and environmental conditions Access to tobacco cessation treatment Gaps in protective policies and laws among populations.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

The biomedical model is so entrenched in our culture that it has become gospelpreached in doctor’s offices, reinforced by advertising, and accepted as unquestioned truth, even though its been debunked. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.

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America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants

Mad in America

They found that the true remission rate was 35%, half the rate of the advertised 67%. Both of these studies controlled for a variety of factors, including baseline depression severity, so this is clearly not a case of backwards confounding.

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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

I would add that this narrative also legitimizes other forms of control, such as psychopharmacological sedation and broader mechanisms of state violence and institutional surveillance. I recently ran into a licensed clinical social worker online who advertised themself as a Psychotherapist/Psychic/Healer (talk about a transference cure!)

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How CEOs can avoid these three innovation killers

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They may be strong relationships with hard-to-reach customers, control of a channel, expertise with manipulating a raw material, brand longevity, size of an installed base, and so on—all examples of real, tangible competitive advantages, which are both hard to replicate and contribute significantly to a winning strategy.