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Do You Have Bipolar Disorder?

Posted on 23 May 2012. Tags: African-American, anger, answer, anxiety, ask Dr. O, askdro, AskDrO.com, behavior, black, blog, change, children, depression, disorder, Dr. O, dwight, Family, health, love, men, mental, out of control, owens, relationship, women

Understanding Bipolar Disorder There is a big confusion when distinguishing bipolar 1 vs bipolar 2, or even if they have it at all. Even though both disorders, show similar signs and symptoms, it is the small details that help us, psychiatrist, tell the difference. Bipolar disorder is the term used to describe a disorder in [...]

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Am I Having A “Nervous Breakdown?”

Posted on 14 March 2012. Tags: abuse, abusive, African-American, aggressive, anxiety, AskDrO.com, attention, behavior, black, blog, brief, catatonic, deception, depression, disinterest, disorder, disorganized, dwight, edginess, functioning, hallucinations, medical, mental, mental health, misled, obsessive, out of control, overwhelm, physical, psychosis, reactive, relationships, signs, stress, symptoms, trauma, warning, women

Understanding different mental health diagnosis is very important and I want to share this brief post with you on this afternoon. Have you ever been so stressed out that it interferes with your mental and daily functioning? You may be experiencing Panic Attacks, Generalized Anxiety or a Brief Reactive Psychosis. The latter is what is more commonly [...]

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How To Fight An Emotional Vampire

Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: abuse, affair, African-American, anger, anxiety, AskDrO.com, attention, behavior, black, blog, change, cheating, closeness, companionship, compulsive, controller, curses, D.owens, deception, depression, disorder, Divorce, Dr. O, dwight, emotional, fathers, fault, friendship, hate, individuals, love, Marriage, MD, men, mental, mental health, narcissism, obsessive, pain, partners, people, places, problems, relations, relationships, seekers, sex, sexual, splitter, vampire, vampires, victim, warning, women

It doesn’t need to be Halloween for you to come across an emotional vampire. They’re everywhere, lurking in the workplace, the grocery stores, the clubs…and sometimes in our own homes. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, these attention-seeking, life-sucking individuals mask their neediness with professions of dependency, companionship, compassion, and most of all, love. Through their relationships, [...]

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Oprah’s “Cheesy” Weight Gain.

Posted on 16 January 2011. Tags: abuse, African-American, anger, anxiety, AskDrO.com, behavior, Beloved, binge, black, blog, carbohydrates, celebrity, change, cheese, CNN, confession, crazy, daytime, depression, disorder, Dr. O, failure, fault, feelings, film, flop, food, gain, happiness, happy, health, host, hurt, interview, issues, macaroni and cheese, mental, movie, movies, notion, odd, Omarion, Oprah Winfrey, out of control, owens, Piers Morgan, pounds, power, recognition, release, risk, sad, sadness, show, strength, talk, warning, weight, woman, women

In a recent interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan for his new talk show, Oprah Winfrey reveals that her diet went on a tailspin binge primarily consisting of macaroni and cheese. Says the daytime talk show queen: “about 30 pounds’ worth.” She said this impulse developed after filming her 1998 release Beloved, starring alongside Danny Glover, [...]

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AskDrO suggest a few Non-Pharmacologic Interventions for Children with ADHD

Posted on 14 December 2010. Tags: abnormal, abuse, activities, Adderall, ADHD, adolescent, affection, African-American, America, anger, anxiety, AskDrO.com, attention deficit, behavior, black, blog, bouts, boy, change, childhood, children, coping, D.owens, dad, deception, depression, disorder, Dr. O, dwight, environment, error, Family, father, fathers, fault, feelings, Focalin, forgive, forgiveness, frustration, girl, happy, illness, intake, lying, Marriage, men, mental, mom, mother, out of control, owens, parent, parents, perspective, physical, population, pressure, relations, relationship, relationships, Ritalin, sad, School, stimulant, tantrums, token, warning, White

Many of you have asked me to do a post on non-medicine interventions for your children. Please be advised that, from a physician’s perspective, a stimulant (Ritalin, Adderall or Focalin) is still absolutely essential for academic success of your child. However, I would like to suggest a couple of other ideas that may be helpful for [...]

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BAD NEWS: Aretha Franklin Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer

Posted on 08 December 2010. Tags: African-American, age, alcohol, anger, anxiety, Aretha Franklin, artist, AskDrO.com, attributes, behavior, black, blog, bowel, cancer, change, condition, D.owens, depression, Detroit, disorder, Dr. O, factors, Family, female, gastrointestinal, health, illness, issues, jaundice, malignant, mental, owens, pancreatic cancer, psychological, queen, R&B, singer, Soul, statistics, surgery, warning, weight, woman, women, worsen

…and we all thought it was JUST gastric bypass for cosmetic reasons…turns out that it’s something worse. The doctors’ recommendations which sidelined the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin from further concerts proved to be a result of pancreatic cancer, which means that RIGHT after we have prayed for her safe recovery from surgery, we must [...]

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