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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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Everything Doesn’t Get Better with Time: Elderly Suicide is on the Rise

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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August 7, 2013
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| Mental Health

I think most people look forward to the day when they can retire from their 9-5, travel the world and live life on their own time. After being in the work force for 40 plus years, how nice it must be to be 65 and financially stable enough to wake up late, get a new […]

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“We Need to Get Rid of this Nigger”: Mass Killing in Connecticut

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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August 4, 2010
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| Enough Said!, Male Depression, Mental Health, Newsworthy, Race Relations, Uncategorized

Omar Thornton was a 34 year old African-American male who worked at a Budweiser Beer Plant. He worked his way up from the warehouse to a driver. Many of the whites felt that he rose to the top too quickly.  This guy WAS a victim of serious racism that resulted in a blood-bath of  murder and suicide.   He called his […]

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