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Ya know, I think it’s safe to say that everyone has endured some type of bullying at one point in their lives. My older readers may recall kids getting wedgies, having their gym clothes stolen or being locked in a locker, the oldschool form of  teasing. None of that is considered good or acceptable but [...]

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Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are notorious for the flak they get about their parenting tactics. They seem to have a modern approach of lassiez-faire if you will, for how they raise 14 year old Jaden and 12 year old, Willow. Jada’s choice of venting has been through Facebook lately where she blatantly addressed the [...]

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I thought that this would be an appropriate post for all you late night and recurrent binge-eaters. The question is,  ”Does your pattern of late night and recurrent episodes of late night eating meet criteria for DSM-V Binge Eating? Many of us are chronic dieters. We go from Jenny Craig to Weight Watchers to the [...]

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If you are like me, I am sure that you are tired of people calling every young man or young woman with a series of temper outbursts automatically Bipolar Disorder. Well,  the DSM-5  Task Force has decided to take a closer look at the constellation of several symptoms that may look like this disorder, but [...]

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Well it has been a long time coming but this morning, while at the APA meeting in San Francisco, I learned that adults can now be diagnosed (DSM-V) as having ADHD. This is a milestone for our discipline of medicine. For a long time we had removed the (H) out after an individual became and [...]

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I honestly worry about this generation sometimes. Jay Harris has dreams of becoming the next overnight rap sensation and therefore opted out of his college education opportunity.  I’m not one to crush anyone’s dreams but if you were an elite high school football player who got offered to play college ball with scholarship money, wouldn’t [...]

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