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Where’s Your Visitor?

The Receptionist

Depending on what you produce, you may also have clean rooms, climate-controlled areas, or storage for hazardous materials. And if you produce pharmaceuticals or electronics, you must keep those environments sterile. This might include forklifts, balers, cranes, or others, in addition to the production line machinery.

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care

Mad in America

I n the clean hallways of today’s mental health centers, a quiet change is taking shape. By the 1990speople called it the “Decade of the Brain”the chemical imbalance idea ( propagated by pharmaceutical industry TV ads ) had grabbed everyone’s attention. This shift moves control away from the individual.

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Human

Mad in America

Four years later, after a series of abusive relationships, I managed to become clean and sober for my two children. Years of prescription medications and drug and alcohol usage will do that to a person, especially when they become clean and sober, then they really have nobody. I thought that they would understand. My captors lurked.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

Mad in America

He also sent me to colleagues who had special knowledge of specific areas such as having a control group who did not have the rehab program, as well as scales and schedules to use in interviews, and which statistics to use. Now they were able to pay bills, cook, and clean, generally take care of themselves, and often others.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

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. Our world doesn’t make it easy.

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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. It has to do with the community psychiatric systemthe control is bigger. How did you manage to do it?

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

Mad in America

For years, the 40-year-old from India’s Panipat lived in fear—she was convinced that a spirit had taken control of her. While his sons eventually recovered, he and his wife remained under the spirit’s control. Where most Hindu temples are clean and orderly, this one isn’t. The spirit talks to us, makes fun of us.