Oppositional Defiant Disorder: From Children To Adults

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is one of the most common mental disorders that affect children and teenagers. In most cases, ODD extends into adulthood. Children with ODD demonstrate frequent patterns of defiant, negative, disobedience and hostile behaviors toward a parent or person in power. A child may reject discipline, blame others for their mistakes, become easily angered, and manipulative.

Children diagnosed with ODD have shown a consistent pattern in these behaviors for a period of six months and longer. These behaviors begin to develop as early as preschool age and as late as 8 years old. Statistics represent 20 percent of school aged children currently have ODD. It is more common for young boys to develop ODD. It becomes more common in girls as they enter their teenage years.

Many teens and children that have been diagnosed with ODD have other diagnosed behavior problems. Some suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(A. D. H. D.), depression, anxiety, and/or learning disabilities. Children with A. D. H. D and ODD have a much harder time controlling their behavior. Medications used to treat A. D. H. D may lower the symptoms of ODD. Read the rest of this entry »

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How to Stop The Cyber Bully – Early Warning Signs, Trust, Openness and Guidance

Without any doubt, cyber bulling is an aggressive act. Some of us learn to be more aggressive than others, but in my opinion we can calm the cyber bully by teaching them to unlearn aggressive behaviors? I believe it is 100% possible for anyone to unlearn anything — Psychology 101, Watson and Skinner on Operant Conditioning. But just like everything else there is another side to every story.

There is the victim of who is being cyber bullied, the viral technology that is being used by more than 2 billion people (probably not all 2 billion, but definitely the majority), and parents of the victim. Instead of focusing on the cyber bully, confronting them, and teaching them to unlearn an aggressive behavior, I will take a more passive approach and focus on the issues and solutions from the perspective of the victim instead, his parents and the technology.

With that being said, similar to how many things are being done on the Internet today, bullying is not immune, and has moved onto the Internet. The Internet, and especially the social networking platforms (eg.Facebook, Myspace, Google+, etc.), cyber bullies now have another vehicle to abuse other kids.

The following statistics depict the seriousness of cyber bullying.

- More than 20% of kids ranging from 11-18 years, randomly selected to participate in a survey indicated that they were victims of cyber bullying. Read the rest of this entry »

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An Amazing Story of Forgiveness

It has been determined over the years that the key to freedom is letting go and there is no better way to let go than to forgive. There is no better example of this axiom than is present in the story of Teal Scott. Teal Scott is, a woman who wasn’t supposed to be. Yet she is here to show others the way. She is here to show others the way out of powerlessness and the way out of pain. She made that journey herself, it was a journey where revenge and anger were road signs but not answers. Now, after years of torture inflicted upon her by a mad man and the cults he belonged to, she has no desire to see her abusers prosecuted or to have the iron hammer of justice brought down upon their heads. To her, they are just victims of loveless situations, broken families, and a cycle of separation that exists far beyond the bounds of this story you are reading now. That day, when I saw her for the first time as she rounded the corner, I was instantly struck by the fact that this woman was beautiful enough to be a super model. She moved gracefully with a looming, ethereal heir of confidence across the room. She exchanged a smile and an unusually firm handshake with me and then proceeded with unwavering eye contact to wait for me to start asking questions.

Teal was born in 1984 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the first years of her life, it became immediately apparent that Teal had been born with unusual talents that set her apart from other children. These talents were not ones that Teal’s parents understood. But in the years to come, they would discover that Teal was demonstrating abilities such as clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, the ability to manipulate electromagnetic fields and the ability to communicate with thought forms. As she grew, unlike many children born with extrasensory talents, her gifts did not go away. Read the rest of this entry »

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