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Mental Health at Work, written by Clarence Upgraded!

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Hey from Clarence Confident! In this document, I will be writing about mental health at work. What does this look like? What does it take to make it at work and be happy and empowered? After all, who really likes to go to work every day? On the flip side many people actually enjoy the jobs that they do. I know this. I enjoy working for myself, and this is a real goal for myself. First , I must maintain an actual job, then I can work for myself. When I am at work, I must do what I am asked to do, go in even if I do not want to, and of course be on time. These basic things have been very difficult for me. When I am at work, I continue to do what I want to do.  I really now see that this is not working. I must make sure that I do what I am asked to do for the employer, then I will get the paycheck that I deserve, and I have earned. This realization has come to hit me in the face! I also need to get enough sleep to function in the right manner. When I am at work, even if it is slow, an...

How to Help the Seriously Mentally Ill

We Need Empathy and Liberty, not Medicine and Confinement, or How to Truly Help Someone in Distress By DAVID T. OKORO In a few years, I'm going to be writing a book exposing the corruption and perverse incentives within the organized mental health system, including how psychiatric hospitals compound trauma and many mental health professionals reinforce socially discriminatory power dynamics. Please, if I tell you I'm thinking about, or I'm acting out through, suicide (attempts) or violence, or struggling with existential/general anxiety, and your only or primary solution is go to the hospital, back off and keep your mouth shut. You are not helping me recover, and though I may not tell or show you what I am thinking or feeling, it will instantly make me distrust you and push my feelings further inside. So what, then, can you do to help me, and other individuals with serious mental illness, or in severe emotional distress? 1. Treat us first and foremost as equal human beings...