Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social effects of unemployment over a 34-year period, S ociologist M. Harvey Brenner of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that a 1% increase in the national unemployment rate was associated with a 4.1% increase in the suicide rate and increases of 3.4% in admissions to state mental hospitals, 4% in state prison admissions and 5.7% in the homicide rate...
...fire me, but much worse than that. Probably the world's worst. Probably I didn't deserve to live. It doesn't simply take away your self-confidence. It destroys you." Elliot Liebow, chief of the Federal Government's Center for Work and Mental Health, says that the very nub of the lost-job syndrome is the victim's feeling of being cut off from personal and social power The sense of powerlessness is compounded by all but universal self-blame, says Liebow, adding: "One very destructive thing is the enormous difficulty people have...
Room 13. founded in 1971 in room 13 of Mather House, began as a drug crisis center but now deals with a broad range of students' mental health problems...
...situation there is sorry. There really is a vague mental pain when I think of the Pistons, Lions, Red Wings and Tigers. What a humble foursome. But I do think of them...
Tichy finds that attempts to improve things, no matter how elegant in design, invariably make them worse. Two giant corporations compete to make a better washing machine; as veteran readers of science fiction might suspect, the devices become complex enough to experience mental illness, hire their own laundresses and attempt a takeover of the world. Even outer space is being ruined by man's ability to visit it. Graffiti flourish in the asteroid belt: IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT ON THIS HERE METEORITE...