mental-health

Lindsay Clancy mistrial makes good sense.

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Lindsay Clancy’s trial recently ended in a hung jury. There was no unanimous verdict. There was a good reason for that.

People who take SSRI drugs for depression are administered a drug that has significant risks for suicidal and homicidal ideation. It’s right on the packaging of the drug. Lindsay Clancy under the advice of doctors was issued 8 different drugs, (at least four antidepressants) which only worsened her symptoms and created in her a desperation to end her own life and the lives of her children.

The elaborate plan that Lindsay Clancy hatched in her mind to kill herself and her children likely came directly from the psychoactive drugs that were administered to her at the time she was admitted for postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is a disorder that accompanies childbirth for some women every year.

The alarming result of strangling her children is as heinous a crime as a mass school shooting which coincidentally is a problem linked with the same psychoactive drugs. Please think about that. Remember the elaborate plans that mass shooters have made before they went on their killing sprees.

The idea of a drug coctail causing a person to become psychologically unstable can make us all squirm. We wonder if we ourselves or someone we love could be either a victim of someone who has suicidal or homicidal ideation when taking the drugs , acting out murdurous inner directives, or we wonder if a person we love could become a drug cocktail victim as a person transformed into a mass murderer.

But please admit that there’s enough evidence to show that people are vulnerable to exactly these outcomes. We have seen it so many times now that there should not be blame to people caught up in the horrible outcomes that have become more and more familiar over time.

Continuing to administer these drugs that have known tragic side effects is what you get when you keep them as standards of care without questioning their use.

The outcome experienced by Lindsay Clancy and her whole family seems to indicate that we should be more cautious. Maybe instead of a drug cocktail we could do something simpler. Administering estrogen to the people that are suffering depression after childbirth because of the precipitous drop in estrogen may be a more rational approach. That may be a better alternative that provides help for women who are suffering and it might prevent just this kind of tragic outcome.

But that approach wouldn’t be a huge money-maker. So it is not the standard of care. As long as our medical system is organized to make the most profit rather than provide the most sensible or the most humane or the most effective treatment, we will continue to have an ongoing set of tragedies. Those tragedies can be like Lindsay Clancy’s or like all the deaths from Covid vaccination or like the many implied illnesses from the vaccination schedule or really a whole host of other problems that our society is facing because of a desire to increase medical profitability.

When doctors administer a drug that causes suicidal and homicidal ideation but it is the standard of care it seems that the doctor can’t be blamed.

When mothers go to seek relief from postpartum depression and they end as Lindsay Clancy has with a shattered life and a terrible tragic outcome, it seems that we shouldn’t blame her either.

I suggest that we should blame the drugs. Also the system that puts profits ahead of people.

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Warring against know how in the American workplace

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How many people do you know who have approached their careers with careful attention to developing their competencies only to be bullied out of the American workforce? The answer for me is a whole lot of them.

Almost everyone I know who I respected as a significant contributor who conscientiously and carefully gave their best effort day after day have been pushed out of their job. They have had their careers ended not just by buy-outs but also by a new manager philosophy. This neoliberal philosophy is profit first even if the final outcome is destruction of the enterprise’s good reputation and the end of the enterprise.

I personally know nurses, librarians, managers, teachers, scientists, bank loan processors, retail salesmen and probably others. These employees were pushed out because they insisted on telling the truth about the workplace. Also because they were trying to achieve excellent outcomes. And because they had consideration for fellow employees and customers. They also had good mental attention for doing the job as it was meant to be done as supported by the mission of the workplace. They specifically became educated and trained in order to do excellent work. These kinds of workers have been banned in many American job sites. Knowledge worker competency is no longer wanted in America. In the effort to boost profits and change every policy in the interest of profits American enterprises have been ignoring ordinary good sense and safety and getting rid of people who behave with a conscience.

I haven’t been motivated to write about this before today but I do so in response to a great article that I read. The title of the article is: “Suicide mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane,” by Maureen Tkacik, Mar 28, 2024, from The American Prospect: Ideas, Politics and Power, (https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/?fbclid=IwAR2FGVrz6QFhEcB1nXdBxMUGvt3u9O55w0lfAMt1DS1ploRaw7c3VbmKGuQ_aem_AcX16zTCFmG5LqceRQiYUy96WdT6B6kElQkZ-haDVjcQIA0dmHY0LKwj_pjNkMcF5RY). This article is a great place to start understanding why the new management strategy needs to end.

This article captures the feeling of workplace hopelessness at Boeing that a great thirty year quality and safety inspector engineer named John Barnett experienced. It described his testimony about the workplace policies that made it impossible for him to continue making safety contributions. John Barnett was making a legal desposition about the troubles at Boeing when he was found dead. He didn’t get to give his third day of testimony. It is clear that John described workplace bullying. And it’s undeniable that bullying escalated to a bullet in John Barnett’s temple. Some say suicide and others say murder.

Putting it mildly, I don’t think that this was ok. It wasn’t ok for John Barnett, it wasn’t ok for any of us who want to ride in an airplane and it wasn’t ok for Boeing. It wasn’t ok for the many dead people from two separate total death Boeing plane crashes.

It shows that the new manager style is tragic and terrible and we should stop it. The choice of sacrificing a company in the interest of a short-term manager profit is called the principle agent problem and it is a form of control fraud.

The CEO made money in the millions, the stock went up in price benefitting share holders and the company many once revered and that John Barnett made a huge effort to save, to correct, to improve may never be successful again. John Barnett died while he was trying to tell this story.

I have to say here that I think that stock price increases don’t make up for the losses that were externalized to others. And I would say that is true even if an insurance company can pay off the families that lost their family member. I would say that even if employees that are bullied out can find another job. I would say that no matter what the stock sales buy in the form of lifestyle.

We should also realize that the American workplace has been seriously harmed under this neoliberal policy set. Good workers who could contribute to make enterprises succeed, can’t do that anymore. Also remember the doctors, nurses, firemen, teachers and others that were dismissed because they wouldn’t take a covid vaccine. They were also sidelined because they were good at their jobs and had a conscience.

If you want to learn how neoliberalism got started, where it came from and what its tragedies are beyond the Boeing tragedy, buy a copy of Political Catsup with Economy Fries at amazon.com. I explain how we started with classical liberalism, moved to modern liberalism and now are experiencing the unpleasantness of neoliberalism.

A final comment I’d like to make is that most ordinary jobs in this country have experienced this radical management change under discussion here. While some jobs are under corporations, others are in government. In a fascist system where private industry partners with government, radical destructive changes can remodel the old systems that produced a stable and productive economy in the direction of new systems that have control fraud or that have been redirected towards corrupt political goals. It is hard for work-a-day people to stop this change. Many Americans feel frustrated.