Posted on 18 January 2011. Tags: abuse, adolescent, African-American, America, anger, anxiety, AskDrO.com, baby, bad, behavior, black, blog, change, CNN, connection, crazy, D.owens, daytime talk, depression, difference, disorder, Dr. O, father, female, forgive, forgiveness, girl, help, host, human, hurt, interview, love, Marriage, Media Play, Mississippi, nationwide, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, out of control, pain, Parenting, Piers Morgan, powerful, pregnancy, pressure, relationship, relationships, show, speak, stress, suffering, Suicide, teenage, television, women
Oprah Winfrey seems to be on a roll this months via confessional interviews. First, she revealed her 30-lb. mac and cheese binge after the failure of Beloved, and now she drops another bombshell…she contemplated suicide at the age of 14! In an exclusive CNN interview with former America’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan, the daytime [...]
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Posted on 16 December 2010. Tags: abuse, adult, African-American, altercation, anger, anxiety, AskDrO.com, assault, behavior, black, blog, change, charges, cheating, child, children, conflict, Cracker Barrel, D.owens, daughter, depression, detail, Dr. O, fault, forgive, forgiveness, free, guilty, Hill, incarcerate, incident, injustice, innocent, jail, logical, man, men, misdemeanor, misled, months, mother, obsessive, out of control, owens, parent, plea, police, prejudiced, pressure, prison, racial, racist, relationships, release, restaurant, sentence, sentencing, served, sheriff, six, size, skills, system, Tasha, Tashawnea Hill, trade, trial, Troy Dale West, unconscious, unfair, walking, warning, White, woman, women, work
In late October, AskDrO.com covered the story on Tashawnea Hill, a Black woman who was beaten by a White man outside of a Cracker Barrel restaurant after allegedly spitting in his face. Hill, who is a mother and an Army reservist, was punched in the face and kicked as she was called racial epithets. As [...]
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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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