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Laughter is the Best Medicine!

A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after. Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.

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Mental Illness is a harsh reality to some. Many people feel that because there are no lab test, x-ray or physical manifestation of mental illness means that it is not real. The whole truth is that it is real.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

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Relationships 101: Why Men Lie? Cheater’s Academy

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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July 13, 2016
| 3 Comments
| Divorce, DSM-V, Education, Enough Said!, Female Depression, Love and Happiness, Male Depression, Marriage, Mental Health, Question of Day, Relationships, Top Featured, Uncategorized

A Conscious Lie is a willful verbal expression of something that is an unreasonable truth.

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I think I am having a “Nervous Breakdown!”

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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February 22, 2012
| 11 Comments
| Enough Said!, Marriage Counseling, medication management, Mental Health, Suicide, Top Featured, Treatments, Women

A lot of people have requested that I provide them with a layman’s definition of a “nervous breakdown.” A nervous breakdown can be defined as a “Psychotic Break.” A psychotic break occurs when a person has impaired and or distorted reality testing. This is usually the case when a person is severely depressed or has […]

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Are We There Yet? (Accepting Interracial Relationships)

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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December 9, 2010
| 1 Comment
| Discussion, Enough Said!, Family, Gay, Love and Happiness, Marriage, Race Relations, Relationships

Following the example of one blogger, we did a Google search concerning interracial relationships and its buzz among the public. Here are our results: White women stealing Black men – 920,000+ results Black men stealing White women – 915,000+ results White men stealing Black women – 4 results Black women stealing White men – 2 […]

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