Posted on 22 December 2010. Tags: abuse, activities, adolescent, African-American, ailment, anger, anxiety, arts, AskDrO.com, attempts, behavior, black, blog, change, children, completion, confusion, crafts, crisis, D.owens, deception, Denver Broncos, depression, disorder, Dr. O, Dr. Owens, drugs, dwight, Dwight A. Owens, education, emotions, extracurricular, fathers, fault, football, forgive, growing, habit, healthy, hopelessness, identity, interview, issue, Kenny McKinley, lying, magazine, male, men, misled, out of control, outlet, owens, pain, Peachstate Psychiatric Services, population, preteen, psychiatrist, Real Health Magazine, reasons, relations, relationship, relationships, Sports, Suicide, symptoms, teenager, unhealthy, violence, warning, wide receiver, WR, writing, young
As the third leading cause of death for Black men, suicide can often be linked to feelings of depression, anxiety, anger issues, physical ailments, life’s woes and other symptoms. Back in October we witnessed the suicide completion of Kenny McKinley, a young, Black rising star-athlete and wide-receiver with the Denver Broncos. In conjunction with this [...]
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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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Posted in Discussion, DSM-IV Notes, Family, Female Depression, Male Depression, Mental Health, Parenting, Relationships, Treatments, What's Hot
Posted on 01 December 2010. Tags: affection, AIDS, America, ask Dr. O, askdro, AskDrO.com, behavior, black, blog, body, change, condoms, D.owens, depression, development, discovery, disease, disorder, doctor, Dr. O, dwight, fathers, gay, health, healthy, HIV, homosexual, human, immunodeficiency, infection, issues, MD, medicate, medication, men, mental, officials, physician, pill, population, protect, relations, relationships, research, revolution, risk, science, sex, sexual, STDs, technology, Truvada, virus, women
It’s unavoidable…HIV/AIDS is prevalent in the United States, especially in the gay population. More than one million Americans are living with this virus; one in five people don’t know it. There are public service announcements (PSA), radio segments, TV programs, erected nonprofit organizations, all designed to help reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. Now, another ally [...]
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