The other Kenny Rogers (Texas Ranger pitcher) with arguably the best first half of the season in the American league lost his composure if not his mind before a game in Arlington, Texas on Wednesday, June 29, 2005. Footage of him pushing away TV cameras, knocking down a cameraman and […]
In the Media
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Your interview with Tom Cruise is an evocative tour de force. You were criticized, admonished and belittled. Is it possible for someone to be condescending squared? You maintained total composure and continued to elicit additional information and opinion. You aroused in him the passion he feels about this subject. You […]
When I first heard that Michael Jackson was found innocent I was glad. But didn’t he get away with pedophilia? Not really. He is not a slippery sociopath who manipulates his way out of being responsible for his actions. He is clearly a tortured soul. The ordeal of public shame, […]
Is the "runaway bride", Jennifer Wilbanks, still running? She’s nowhere to be found. When she was having her fifteen minutes of fame I received several email questions as to what was up with her. I kept waiting for more information and explanation but very little has come out. She somehow […]
That’s certainly the implication of the headline appearing yesterday on the popular Drudge Report website. It read, "School Killer was on Prozac …" The story then goes on to describe a very disturbed and isolated teen who had tragically lost both parents. The only information available about Prozac was in […]
Recently it was reported that a common anti-inflammatory medication (Aleve) caused an increase in heart problems or stroke in patients being studied to see if it helped Alzheimer’s risk. Another common medication, Vioxx, was taken off the market after studies showed that long term use increased risk of heart problems. […]
Please, somebody wake me up and tell me I’ve been having a bad dream. I didn’t just read that the District Attorney in Collin County has charged a Plano woman, Dena Schlosser, with capital murder. She can be put to death for taking a phrase in the Bible literally and […]
On 9-14-04 I made a diary entry after the baseball incident where a pitcher threw a chair into the stands. In the baseball incident, I was most perplexed by the lack of any commentary about the fans’ roles in the problem or their inappropriate behavior. Now this weekend we had […]
In 1999, the National Institute of Mental Health sponsored the most comprehensive study of ADHD children that had ever been done. They wanted to find out how various treatment approaches compared in outcome. It was called the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD (MTA). 579 children ages 7-9 with ADHD combined […]
When I first heard that Dr. Phil devoted a program to ADHD (Sept. 28 ’04) called "Parenting with Pills" in which he sharply criticized the overuse of medication to "control behavior," instead of using good parenting skills, my response was "if all you have is a hammer, you treat everything […]