What if the rise in antipsychotic medications dispensed is actually evidence of sanity?
Consider the modern workplace:
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
Psychosis is being untethered from reality. You hear voices that nobody else hears. You hallucinate. You are paranoid and think people are "out to get you" for no reason. People do impossible things.
The modern workplace demands that the workers be psychotic.
Examples:
-E.T. who cannot use Excel to add two numbers together is the project leader for a project that demands Excel expertise.
-Clarissa torpedo's Mike with "Hostile workplace" accusations because she overheard him talking when she walked past him and she assumed he was talking about her. (Mike was talking about his ex- but that does not matter)
-Women with 5th percentile stature (for women) are able to do everything men with 95th percentile stature can do.
-Accommodations are made for "furries" and bacon is banned from the cafeteria because it offends new workers.
-Since "there are no differences between people" older employees are assigned work that was designed for 30-year-olds and blow-out their shoulders, backs and knees.
-Managers are lauded as geniuses for Powerpoint presentations that are more confusing than a four-year-old's crayon scribbling. And the presentation is promoting the same stupid idea that failed three times in the last 15 years.
So what is the response of the workplace (or of HR) when a worker "snaps", when they just cannot take it any more, when they can no longer pretend?
Frequently, the workplace makes psychiatric treatment a condition of continued employment. Back-in-the-day when Greg and Devaron duked it out in Under-body, there were no cameras, no smartphones, people kept their mouths shut. Greg and Devaron avoided each other for a couple of weeks and then it was all-good.
Now there is no possibility of plausible deniability. They would both be deemed a threat to self and others and forced into treatment if they wanted to continue working with the firm.
The good news is that "dispensed" is not identical to "taken as prescribed".
Lo about 20 years ago I quit smoking cigarettes. I asked my Doctor to give me something to take the edge off, because at the time I was working in a supervisory capacity at a large print-shop (150+ employee's, 3 HR drones, etc.). I didn't want to have a nicotine-fit at work and get fired (as you mention possible scenario's above). I also spoke w/ my Supervisor and HR and told them I was quitting, asked for support, and got it... That all went very well.
ReplyDeleteMy Dr. gave me Zoloft. I took half of the starter-pack dose for the first 2 weeks of quitting. I will say, it certainly helped me through my process. THAT being said, if you know or work w/ a "normal person" who says they can't get out of bed w/o it... run. Run very far away. It turned me into a literal robot... No emotion, no feeling, no desires, nothing, just a blank slate who was most agreeable. Having taken large doses of powerful drugs recreationally, I could NOT BELIEVE what that little pill did to me, and I was only taking 1/4 of the recommended dosage.
... I have imagined many times what whole sections of our population too drugged by these concoctions has inflicted on our society, and it's not pretty. I think that's why we have so much abject apathy to the infractions currently arrayed against us. A percentage of the population is on these things purposefully, another percentage absorbs it through their environment (you still drink tap water? Check the test results!)... and lets not even get started on flouride!
It's no wonder nobody wants to do anything, and the powers that be like it that way. Our forefathers weren't being drugged into submission, it's no wonder they were so uppity! All they had was booze and hemp (CBD)! They'd hang out in bars and get each other all riled up after several rounds of rot-gut moonshine whiskey. No wonder they're legalizing weed everywhere today - breeds apathy.
ERJ, the modern work environment is no joke. Even with places where "modern thinking" predominates and no-one likely is that into it, there is still always the sense of something hanging over one's head that mutes conversation and the sharing of lives that used to occur.
ReplyDeleteIt’s the women. 25% of North American women are hooked on them. And small wonder: they are getting into positions of power and authority they can’t handle, and coupled with the stress of part time parenthood… they’re cracking up. Then they inflict their lunacy on others. And their families. Single moms produce 75% of the nation’s criminals. 85% of all divorces are driven by women. Our nations are consumed with making excuses and enabling them. Can you imagine telling them, “You don’t need drugs, Chickie - you need a slap in the teeth and some common sense…”
ReplyDeletePrescriptions dispensed to women outnumber those dispensed to men 2-to-1.
DeleteOn the other hand, women are more likely to GO to a doctor than men while men are more likely to "self-medicate".
EVERYBODY is cracking up. The system is broken. People are not interchangeable cogs no matter how much Marxist-Leninist-Lysenkoist thinking would demand that they are.