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Your Child Ain’t Bipolar! Updates from the DSM-5

Posted on 21 May 2013. Tags: ADHD, Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Child mood disorder, Classification, DSM-V, Dysregulation, fights, Irritability, Mood Disorder, out of control, student, Suspensions, Temper Tantrums, trouble

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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Breaking News from San Francisco: DSM-V Now Recognizes ADHD in Adults! WOW

Posted on 20 May 2013.

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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Rap Career vs. College Education: College Hopeful Gives Up Football Offer for Budding Rap Music

Posted on 16 May 2013. Tags: ADD, ADHD, African-American, ask Dr. O, AskDrO.com, atlanta, behavior, bipolar, black, blog, celebrity, children, Current events, depression, diagnosis, disorder, doctor, Dr. O, female, free, Georgia, Information, male, MD, Medically Speaking, mental health, morehouse college, Newsworthy, pictures, podcast, psychiatrist, radio, relationship, schizophrenia, videos, YouTube

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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Update! Will Smith’s Son Wants to be Emancipated From His Parents?

Posted on 14 May 2013. Tags: African-American, alone, anger, ask Dr. O, askdro, AskDrO.com, behavior, black, black celebrity news, blog, british, change, child, children, consequences, D.owens, Divorce, Dr. O, emancipation, Family, forgiveness, house, interview, jada, jaden, lesson', misled, out of control, Parenting, parents, relationship, smith, tabloid, teaching, the sun, warning, will, willow

Update: Well guys, it looks like the media jumped the gun on this one. Seems like Jaden wants to be a kid living off the good of the land for a long time. He’s not going anywhere, there’s no emancipation. Will was only joking. Check out the video for his explanation from his interview with “Ellen” [...]

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The Silence is Broken: Spelhouse Relationships Under Fire!

Posted on 03 May 2013. Tags: abuse, African-American, anxiety, ask Dr. O, AskDrO.com, AUC, bad, broken, Clark University, confusion, D.owens, depression, fondle, gay, gender, God, hbcu, homosexual, listen, men raping men, Morehouse, morehouse college, penetration, rame, rape, relationship, religion, role, sexual harassment, sexual molestation, sexuality, silence, sodomy, spelman, straight

This was a very moving interview for me. The students were very vivid and candid with me. I must say I really learned a lot. All three of them were very articulate, informed and educated. I was forced to listen to their passion. I was forced to understand where they were coming from today. I [...]

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Hazed and Confused: Should Hazing be Considered a Form of Domestic Violence?

Posted on 01 May 2013. Tags: abuse, ADD, ADHD, African-American, atlanta, bipolar, black, blog, celebrity, college, Current events, death, depression, diagnosis, disorder, doctor, domestic violence, female, free, Georgia, hazing, Information, male, MD, Medically Speaking, mental health, morehouse college, Newsworthy, pictures, podcast, psychiatrist, radio, relationship, schizophrenia, videos, Young Harris Collge, YouTube

Somebody please explain to me why someone would put with the physical abuse, emotional distress and public embarrassment known as hazing? What sounds right about voluntarily condoning someone to harm you physically or mentally? I consider this an abusive relationship. Those who haze and the people being hazed are in a vicious cycle that needs [...]

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