Mad River Behavioral Health

  I use to work inside this horribly depressed, angry, agitated company.  Ironically, it was a mental health facility.  *** I’ve never seen so many employees return from meetings with a particularly abusive senior manager crying. This is super duper HR fail. It is a super senior management team fail. It is a super leadership fail. And, it is a super big board of directors fail. But it was not just this one toxic senior manager.  It was the organization as a whole. I’ve never seen so much inter-personnel animosity. I’ve never seen so much wide-spread demoralization anywhere, at any company I’ve ever worked at over my decades of work experience.  This was quite simply the worst place I have ever worked.  The senior manager, although super abusive and toxic, wasn’t responsible for the wide-spread demoralization and hostility throughout the company. He certainly was injecting a ton more yuck into the company, but he didn’t touch all of its moving parts. There w...

  Pirate Movie Adventure I started conceptualizing life as a “Pirate Movie Adventure” when my wife was diagnosed with cancer. One minute, literally, life was beautiful.  The next minute, literally, she was informed of her biopsy results.   Then she came home.  One minute, literally, life was beautiful.  The next minute, literally, I was informed of her biopsy results.  Within a fraction of a second, our lives - together and individually - changed radically.  We had it all.  She had finished her medical residency and begun work as a pediatrician, her lifelong dream.  We had purchased our first home together. We had two beautiful young sons. We lived in a beautiful area with mountains, rivers, and lakes all around.  2.5 years later, my wife was dead.  Life is a Pirate Movie Adventure 1. Sometimes the weather is warm and sunny with a nice breeze, the seas are calm, we are sailing along smoothly.  2. Sometimes life is hot, dull, wi...