Dr. Payton

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Being a Couch Potato Puts Adolescents at Risk for Mental Illness

In the March 10, 2020 edition of the Asheville Citizen Times, An Associated Press aricle...
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Life During and After the Virus

Well, we are all having to cope with the changes and uncertainty that this pandemic...
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No One’s Coming to Save Us

I was reading an opinion piece in the May 31, 2020 Sunday Review by Roxane...
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The New Threat: Racism Without Racists

A CNN article from November 27, 2014 by John Blake speaks about the problem of...
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It is All About Exploitation?

Exploitation is defined as the fact of or action taken to treat someone unfairly in...
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Has Being White Ever Been Good?

If race was invented to justify exploiting other people then being white has never been...
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Is Empathy Just Listening to Others Without Our Own Reactions?

I've become more and more convinced that listening to others is the best way to...
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Is Covid Virus More Deadly Than the Flu Virus?

A study in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine:Comparison of the characteristics, morbidity, and mortality of COVID-19...
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This We Know: the Earth Does Not Belong to Us. We Belong to the Earth

The above quote is attributed to Chief Seattle, although it is not certain. Another quote...
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Ptsd and Depression Are Killing Middle-aged Women

Megan Brooks in the Vol. 49, No. 1, January, 2021 edition of Clinical Psychiatry News...