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How did you get through lockdown Was it baking or running or meditating Maybe you took up art, or the guitar, or joinery 鈥?or just screaming into a pillow. For me, it was psychiatric medication. At present, I am on more meds than I have ever taken before 鈥?which says something as I spent a full year in a psychiatric hospital.Before the pandemic, I was on antidepressants, working on getting slowly better from an eating disorder, managing depr stanley cup ession and anxiety and the voices that yell or chatter 鈥?depending on the day 鈥?telling me Im a failure, that I should stop breathing, that my friends and family hate me. Taking my meds significantly reduces the stretches of time I spend stagnant, gripped by blackness and staring at the cobwebs on my bedroom ceiling. They give me the fight I need to do weekly talking therapy, which in turn gives me the fight to get on with the job of living.However, Covid unsteadied me, as it did for everyone. The bad voices became clearer and louder as the world became more viscous, confusing and frightening. I barely slept, and, when I did, my dreams started to seep into my reality. My mind was fraying.I was referred to a psychiatrist, who suggested an additional medication. But I want to reduce my meds, not take more, I said. Why was his exasperated reply. And the answer was simple 鈥?no stanley becher matter how irrational I knew this was, I somehow felt that I should.People too often still look at their shoes when you mention stanley termoska antidepressants or other psychiatr Fcuk A moment that changed me: dengue fever put me in hospital 鈥?and taught me to love my body
When stanley thermos David Kappos became head of the United States Patent and Tradem stanley termos ark Office four years ago, there was a brief flurry of hope that he might be to America s dysfunctional patent system what Joseph Kennedy had been to Wall Street back in the Great Depression: a reformer chosen from the ranks of the people who d created the need for reform. Kennedy had been, among other things, a stock speculator who knew all the financial industry s corrupt practices, and he used the then-fledgling Securities and Exchange Commission to crack down on the abuses that had led to the crash and depressi stanley termohrnek on.Kappos had been in charge of patents at IBM, a huge patent collector and, says patent system expert Greg Aharonian, often an abuser of the system itself. So, perhaps, it was only wishful thinking to imagine him as someone truly interested in the kind of reform the system needs. And just before he announced his imminent departure from the patent office, Kappos made an impassioned defense of the system, particularly as it applies to software patents, saying it s just fine.This claim was quickly and easily debunked, of course, but it spoke to Kappos mindset. Who knows what to make of his ego, given the utterly bizarre comparison of Kappos to Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and other genuine American inventors in the patent office s offering of 鈥?I m not joking 鈥? USPTO Trading Cards in the kids pages of its website. It is not fine, at all. Kappos will leave a system that is, in many ways, |
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