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Were you an NHS inpatient between Oct 2021 and Apr 2023 at any of these Trusts?
@TEWV
@rdash_nhs
@EPUTNHS
You may have been filmed in your inpatient bedroom without your knowledge or consent and footage of you sent to researchers.
@katiecoletv
#StopOxevision
Why is
@NHSEngland
allowing oxevision to be rolled out without proper scrutiny and used as an experimental tool on non-consenting NHS inpatients who are filmed in their hospital bedrooms like rats in a lab?
@TEWV
@rdash_nhs
@EPUTNHS
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"Following Edwige's death...we no longer admit women with a personality disorder to our service"
That's their take away from this - don't provide care to women with a pd label
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New work and pensions secretary says, "life on benefits not an option"
What is she going to do? Take all of us who can't work out into a field and shoot us? Or just attack us until our lives are made so intolerable we end them ourselves?
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The RITB-Warwick-Edinburgh Neoliberal Mental Wellbeing Scale
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A reminder that RITB will pay fines up to £200 for this type of prosecution. We entirely believe prosecutions related to suicide attempts are unethical, cruel and can never be justified.
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BPD 'traits' is not a diagnosis. Either give a diagnosis or don't refer to bpd at all. Self harm is self harm it isn't a 'BPD trait'.
BPD traits is a meaningless phrase designed to get BPD in by the back door and without accountability.
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How can you 'recover' when you are hungry and your housing is at risk? Why don't all recovery colleges have well trained and effective welfare rights units to protect people from DWP?
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To everyone who reaches out when they are unwell and are met with compassionless responses from crisis teams - we see you and we believe you. You deserve better.
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I'm a valuable member of society, in sickness and in health, regardless of whether I am able to work or volunteer. My value as a human being is not dependent on my financial contribution to the economy.
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So much hand wringing about excessive diagnosis of adhd, ASD, bipolar, depression, anxiety etc.. but mostly silence about excessive diagnosis of BPD.
Why is that?
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The best mental healthcare for millions of people right now would be an increase in benefit rates.
This would also be one of the best measures to support the NHS.
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There need to be more awareness of some mental distress (and dare we say it mental illness) as permanent & severely disabling. Not everyone can 'recover' to a point where they are able to sustain employment & many who can wont, because they will never get sufficient support.
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I'm sorry but lack of resources does not make staff tell patients they are attention seeking. That's verbal abuse.
Can we please stop making nhs staff the victims when they are the perpetrators.
It's about time we had zero tolerance for patient abuse.
As a patient, I wouldn’t want to tell staff if I felt suicidal.
As a member of staff, I feel the desperation given available resources.
I don’t know what the answer is.
Suicidal patients accused of ‘attention seeking’ by NHS staff, national probe warns
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Clinical Psychology
What's it called when a group that is 90% white say they have no bias?
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It's appalling that long term service users with severe and enduring mental illnesses are advised to call the Samaritans. The Samaritans is not a routine NHS service. Pts shld be being MONITORED not being referred IN CRISIS to an external org that makes no record.
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Depressed people smile.
If you are a MH professional please don't assess us until you understand suicidal women smile.
This young woman died. Please learn something from what she endured so women don't keep dying.
sometimes i think about how not only did a senior consultant psychiatrist write this on my notes from a MHAA, but as far as i am aware no one has ever questioned it.
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Rita has been feeling all creative 🎨
She’s made our Handy guide for Crisis Team workers into a work of art thanks to
@NellAitch
🎨
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You know what the single biggest intervention with the greatest impact on Mental Health would be right now? Not cutting £20 from Universal Credit.
All prof bodies should be working to stop the govt
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Another young woman has lost her life. Failed by services. Failed yet again due to the PD label.
Our thoughts go out to all who loved her and all devastated by another preventable death in our community.
trigger warning, suicide
crisis team: it’s a bit drastic to kill yourself isn’t it?
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Mental Health For All Day
That includes all people with severe mental illness who WILL NEVER be able to meet society's idea of 'recovery', those who need lifelong support to live their best, happiest life.
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Service Users should have the right to communicate with their care teams by email. We are in 2018 not 1978. If your care team is obstructive about email communication ask for it as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act.
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1) The Samaritans is a listening service not a lifesaving service - they will listen while you die.
2) The Samaritans shld not be recommended to current MH service users as part of their crisis plan unless they specifically want anonymity & no monitoring or record of their crisis
This morning we also announce £2m for Samaritans helpline to ensure it can continue to provide immediate, lifesaving support to everyone who needs it, 24/7
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The NHS is letting people with severe mental illness down. NHS orgs are focusing their work on mild/moderate mental illness to the detriment of people with severe mental illness.
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If you hear professionals saying
"That's just behavioural"
you are witnessing views that build the kind of culture seen on
#BBCPanorama
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We doubt that people using Shout were aware it would share their conversations with researchers and for profit companies. Total abuse of trust.
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Many therapists appear unable to cope with helplessness as part of the human condition.
To be fully mature as a human you have to be able to live with the fact of helplessness despite any anxiety you might feel about helplessness.
To be human is to be, at times, helpless.
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@rcpsych
How are service users and survivors meant to believe that it doesn't represent the views of the college when so very many of your members apparently hold such views?
Service users encounter such views nationwide. You have a problem in psychiatry and among your members.
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It is a poor reflection on UK mental health professionals when NHS MH patients are unable to be open about suicidal ideation/intent for fear fully qualified professionals will accuse them of 'threatening', 'attention seeking' and manipulating.
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Lots of women are increasingly avoiding seeking help with their mental health because they are afraid they will be labelled with PD.
Is this even on psychiatrists radar?
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Too often MH services refuse to acknowledge the depth of a person's suffering until they self-harm. Distress is seen as less without self-harm. This can send the message that the only way to be heard and taken seriously by MH services is self-harm.
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Rita would like to give a solidarity hug to all those tonight who feel despondent and in despair at the prospect of a conservative government tomorrow.
We will continue to fight with you for a better, more just society. We will stand with you X
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RITB is sad to announce one of our members and elder stateswoman of the survivor movement Jan Wallcraft has died today. Our thoughts are with her family & friends. Pls do share memories of Jan.
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Just because somebody's relation has been killed doesn't stop them being racist. What kind of statement is it to blame a mentally ill man's family for giving birth to him and 'bringing him into our country'.
'Do you have any level of sympathy for them?'
'No. None at all.'
Emma Webber, the mother of Nottingham victim Barnaby Webber, explains to
@NickFerrariLBC
why she does not feel sorry for the family of her son's killer.
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Sometimes, it's not that folk can't stay alive but that they don't want to.
Does the focus on suicidality as 'lacking skills' in emotional regulation or managing depression or problem solving etc.. overlook presentations where the person no longer wants to use their skills?
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How many people are avoiding NHS mh services for fear they will be labelled with a personality disorder?
#PDintheBin
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From twitter:
"The truth about my recovery from schizophrenia is that a lot of it had to do with no longer being in extreme poverty"
The reality is, work no longer takes people out of poverty
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The idea of 'emotional regulation' can become a psychological tyranny enabling gaslighting.
It's used as an expectation that service users remain or return quickly to calm. As such it can be a tool to control women's distress and deny expression of pain at injustices.
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We oppose 'Recovery' with a capital 'R' - co-opted neoliberal 'Recovery Approach'.
We believe many people do and can recover clinically, personally or both - but not everyone, not in current unsupportive environment & not always in neoliberal, full-time work version of recovery.
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What's your favourite memory of a mental health professional?
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We are witnessing the gradual disappearance of the postwar British welfare state behind a webpage and an algorithm. In its place, a digital welfare state is emerging. The impact on the human rights of the most vulnerable in the UK will be immense.' - Professor Philip Alston
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The Double Life Of The Recovered Professional
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Too many MH professionals hate and despise patients. Then they label patients as personality disordered and the label becomes a rationalisation and validation their own hatred for people in their care. Worse, it becomes a warning urging other professionals to hate the patient.
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An unintended consequence of suicide prevention awareness day is that it makes a whole load of MH peeps feel suicidal.
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Tonight survivors will be sitting in their homes too scared to call for help in case reaching out is used to prosecute.
It might be any one of us, victims of a MH service that has completely lost its way.
We should receive kindness, warmth and love when we reach out
#StopSim
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Up until last year the Samaritans had an advisory board packed with Tories and that included Esther McVey at the same time as issuing suicide reporting advice which meant deaths caused by the DWP often went unreported. They dropped the board after we & others exposed it.
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Neorecovery: A Survivor Led Conceptualisation and Critique
#MHNR2019
#neorecovery
#RITB
Ever had qualms about the 'Recovery Approach'? This is the blog for you - includes keynote transcript, slides, livestream and podcast!
Voices of lived experience
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Professionals are out in force tonight wringing their hands over the horrors exposed in
#BBCpanorama
yet many will be the same professionals who get upset about service users recording and publicising what happens to us.
Just think about that.
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We owe psychiatry nothing. We are ENTITLED to compassionate, discrimination free, caring services from MH professionals.
It is MH professionals duty to address discrimination and hate towards patients.
The burden should not fall on patients to coax them to do their jobs.
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Can clinicians please stop talking about women "attracting" a personality disorder label.
That language speaks volumes.
Women who are "targeted" for a PD diagnostic label is a more accurate descriptor.
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Why do some MH units force people out of bed at 8am and insist pts cannot lie on their beds till the evening despite any physical conditions & meds side effects?
Someone enlighten me what this achieves?
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Personality Disorder, if it is ever given as a dx, should be a last option after all other differential diagnoses have been assessed for including specialist autism/adhd assessment.
PD should never be a confirmed dx without through specialist assessment by a specialist service.
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“Discharging someone with expressed suicidal intent is the equivalent of discharging someone in the middle of a heart attack... you’re gambling with people’s lives.” New blog in our series on Positive Risk Taking
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Approaches geared to mild illness, like short term intervention, have invaded secondary services leaving people with severe mental illness to neglect and punishment for not succeeding at discharge in a short time frame. Permanent support needs seem to have been erased from care.
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This is a responsible and sensitive decision and we applaud Derek for listening. Activism works! Speak up, together we can change things!
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Pls note this is one of our members and they are supported and this is being sorted. Not everyone is so lucky to have trusted & informed people around them and the capacity to fight this abuse. NB. Advice Links
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SIM was set up by a police officer, embedded regular visits by police officers to vulnerable women, trained professionals in how to avoid blame at inquests, discredited women's complaints...
And it was embraced by the NHS, the police, partner agencies and individual clinicians.
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People with severe mental illness living in the UK cannot lead 'normal' lives because we do not have the right help and support.
There's no point telling people they can live a normal life with the right support if there is no access to that support.
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.
@rcpsych
The language and attitudes in this advert are not acceptable. It is no longer enough to say sorry and that you will do better next time because it keeps happening.
What are you going to do about it? It is disgusting and borders on hate speech.
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Question for professionals
How do you plan to respond to patients over the coming weeks who want to discuss harm they have experienced from your services and your trusted colleagues?
Does your team have a plan? Do you have a plan?
#BBCpanorama
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Everyone needs to spread the word about UK government systematic mistreatment (persecution) of disabled ppl. Many dont even know UK has been condemned by UN for human rights abuses or been ruled guilty by its own courts of blatant discrimination against ppl with mental illness
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Sensitive subject, but at some point we service users maybe need to broach how to cope with mental health professionals who are less intelligent and/or knowledgeable than us. It's a tricky topic to navigate as a service user faced with a powerful professional. Any tips?
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#UniversalCredit
is a system of total social control for people in poverty. It makes you homeless, it makes you starve, it makes you die.
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We are very sad to say a member, and author of this piece (and artwork), is no longer with us.
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Borderline is way of saying that you can treat service users like shit and your colleagues will sympathise with YOU.
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.
@NSFTtweets
Here's feedback from one of your patients with actual experience of the SIM scheme you are running.
Will you acknowledge the harm your patients are experiencing?
#StopSim
@StopSimMH
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A lot of talk about assertive outreach tonight but lived experience voices demonstrate again and again that cmhts are so rude and horrible that patients avoid these toxic teams. That doesn't call for AOT, it calls for a big culture change in mh services.
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An example of a MH Trust doing a good complaint response.
(It was about a call to the crisis team)
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Five years ago misuse of capacity was barely recognised by professionals.
Thanks to all us patients & survivors talking about it again & again we got it on the professional radar & now it's mentioned in national suicide prevention strategy.
Misuse of “mental capacity” in responding to suicidal people is a serious problem in frontline practice.
Poorly defined & understood, not part of the MH Act, but at times the basis of denying care in a crisis.
Referenced in the national
#suicideprevention
strategy.
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Many professionals will read this and believe it was last resort, that everything else had been tried. And they think that because they too are the kind of people who dismiss service users as 'not engaging'.
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How well are you today?
Check-out our unevidenced based wellbeing scale
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Here's
@DrChloeBeale
a fabulous ally to service users, speaking to the Joint Committee on the draft mental health bill about the trend for misusing capacity with suicidal people.
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A patient complains about you.
You feel hostile to them.
That confirms it! They have a personality disorder!
It couldn't POSSIBLY be that you have normalised low standards of practice and 99% patients are too afraid of you or exhausted to complain about you.
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Everyone needs to spread the word about UK government systematic mistreatment (persecution) of disabled ppl. Many dont even know UK has been condemned by UN for human rights abuses or been ruled guilty by its own courts of blatant discrimination against ppl with mental illness
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Why is it that the UK won't support euthanasia but MH professionals are quite willing to tell suicidal patients that it is their choice to kill themselves with the implication that overrides services duty of care?
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Groundbreaking thread in which NHS staff reveal they do understand how 'resilience' is used to blame the individual for systemic problems & lack of support.
Now please can MH professionals stop inflicting it on service users who have dealt with more than many probably ever will.
The term 'resilience' in context of health care staff working under unimaginable strain from acuity, admissions, turnover, lack of staff and resources must be resoundingly rejected. It's a scam
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It is astounding there hasn't been any research done on links between making a complaint and being labelled with a personality disorder. It is such common knowledge that complaining can lead to diagnostic reprisals and yet the research community appears uninterested.
#NHSstigma
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Mostly, it seems to me, that if you've got a patient labelled 'not engaging' dig a bit deeper and what you will find is professionals treating that patient very poorly indeed.
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Mentally unwell or criminal? My experience of being criminalised for my mental health.
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Do you follow us on Instagram? We are currently gathering experiences over there to add to the concept we've come up with of the 'Heartsink Professional'. Blog coming soon, add your own experiences if you want a chance for them to be included!
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Definition:
"take responsibility"
(phrase) clinical term denoting 'get a grip'/'pull yourself together'. Derives from widespread societal attitudes that view mental distress as a moral & social failure.
#NHSstigma
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Not all psychiatrists, mh nurses, psychologists etc...are attracted to their careers by the opportunity to have power over others but let's admit that's part of an explanation for mistreatment of patients...not 'compassion fatigue'
This is the whispered part. Whilst clearly not all officers fit this pattern, it’s right to acknowledge holding power over others (espec. black people and women and girls) is very attractive to a certain type of man. Those who are repulsed by it…don’t tend to want to be police.
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It is astounding all the staff on this thread commenting that they worked in asylums in 70s, 80s, 90s and saw similar cases yet nobody is asking why mdts in later decades didn't release them. They weren't kept there by magic. Staff made daily decisions to uphold their admissions
Dolly incarcerated in the Moor Hospital Lancaster for having an illegitimate child in her early teens she never left, from the exhibition Life goes on
@saltsmill
For the history & background of this inhuman treatment read The undesirables by
@MissSarahWise
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Maybe one elephant in the room for Trauma Informed Care is-
is iatrogenic harm recognised? And systems changed to stop repeating that harm?
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The way the PD label is used to abuse women would not be possible if THOUSANDS of mh professionals didn't engage in the abuse. This isn't a handful of bad apples. This is YOU and your colleagues. It's everywhere.
MH professionals should be ashamed of themselves.
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“It appears that the common belief amongst mental health professionals that admissions are counterproductive for this entire group of service users is in fact so far nothing but an unsubstantiated myth.”
#PDinTheBin
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Personality disorder should be abolished but until then it should never be dx without a process as thorough as autism dx and only if patients consent to go through the process.
Why is there such a disparity between PD and autism dx? Who benefits?
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Anyone else feel that professionals love involvement until you actually challenge them.
Sometimes it is difficult not to feel it is all an entire waste of time.
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Neopaternalism
Example:
"We've decided for you that you must not be dependent on us. Your opinion doesnt matter because we are doing this for you, in your best interests. We are discharging you to promote your independence nb it has nothing to do with neoliberal ideology or cuts"
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"It is difficult to get a person to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
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