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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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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. Of course, psychiatrists rarely say the quiet parts out loud; their status as pharmaceutical Americans could come into jeopardy if they did.

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How to manage conflict on your team when you’ve been avoiding it forever

Work Life

I worked with one global pharmaceutical client that was struggling to adapt to rapid growth as the demand for a blockbuster drug skyrocketed. The HR team, skeptical about changing processes that had worked for decades, began to butt heads with legal, who preferred new processes and increasingly looked down on HR as less business savvy.

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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

Work Life

Ultimately, companies aren’t legally required to give employees severance packages ( except for through the WARN Act , which may require companies with 100-plus full-time workers to pay two months’ severance). The junior employee promoted to his position had a significantly lower base salary than his.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. After a successful 20-year career promoting physical activity and sport, with no history of mental illness, I was tragically wrong.

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

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Also, there must be legal issues regarding an employer forcing an employee to spend money on something they don’t want to have. I work as at a leading worldwide pharmaceutical company as an administrative assistant. Even though I earn a really good salary, it irks me that I spend over $3,500 a year for a car I don’t want.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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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.