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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

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Construction and utilities: building the future Construction Strong growth is in the cards for the domestic construction sector next year. construction spending hit a more than $2 billion record-high. Meanwhile, job growth slowed in October, in part due to the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

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If the economy tanks or there is some huge disaster that traumatises loads of people, that could be great news for my job security! Davies describes a comprehensive UK government report on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report on the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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Neurofeedback is the newest mental health hack among entrepreneurs. Here’s why

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Meeting deadlines, delivering on promises to clients, being solely responsible for the well-being of employees or your own financial security can be a heavy burden to bear. These stresses can lead to feelings of isolation, imposter syndrome, and burnout. What is neurofeedback?

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

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She recently quit her security job. Justine’s security duties included kicking people out of the doorways and stairwells where they slept or got high. 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.” I’ll mention two.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

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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. This creates an opportunity to work through them constructively. We can acknowledge feeling powerless, victimized, or unsafe, and ask, “How can we secure you in some way?”

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people. Nevertheless, it remains important and influential.

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Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”

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Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. GAMIAN receives a lot of money from pharmaceutical companies, for example, from GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly Benelux, Organon, Pfizer Janssen, Lundbeck, Otsuka, and Shire (8). Alternatives beyond psychiatry.