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November 27, 2015

Pilots Lost in Cyberspace

The two pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles, remaining out of communication with air traffic controllers for over an hour, have blamed their silent detour on being distracted by their laptops. Captain Timothy Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole have denied falling asleep, instead explaining that they were reviewing their schedules on their computers.

November 27, 2015

Balloon Boy

If it turns out that Richard and Mayumi Heene did plan the hoax that transfixed our nation, then they are the most dramatic examples yet of our celebrity, media-obsessed culture turning people into narcissistic monsters and children into props in their made-for-TV lives. The Heenes, who are storm chasers, veterans of "Wife Swap" and producers of their own YouTube video series, knew what kind of drama would glue Americans to their TV sets. This one had so many critical elements: A little boy in danger of losing his life, a chase scene involving a shiny balloon, the specter of helicopters and jets in the sky and "panic-stricken" parents. If only the Heenes had also been scantily clad, they might have actually gotten a contract for a new reality series signed before their plan deflated like . . . well . . . a balloon full of hot air. But to Richard and Mayumi Heene, you see, reality doesn't matter. Real emotions don't matter. The well-being of their children doesn't matter. Danger doesn't matter. Only fame matters. It is their drug. They crave the anesthetizing atmosphere of public recognition and the money that often follows. They want to slip the confines of their real lives and float away from their inner feelings of being small and anonymous and powerless. In this way they are no different than that old variety of addicts who left their kids to fend for themselves while looking to score crack cocaine or heroin. They are no different, even, from heroin addicts who "sell" their own children. Think about the "adventures" on which they had already brought their children. They had peddled them to a network, exposed them to a surrogate parent and TV cameras in their own home-twice. They had encouraged them to post videos of themselves online, for anyone who might like to watch (including would-be perpetrators of violence against children). They had reportedly kept them in street clothes when putting them to bed, then awakened them in the middle of the night to go running after hurricanes and tornadoes. That's about as much fun for kids as trolling dark, drug-infested streets for dealers. And it amounts to the same thing: Two parents braving danger and putting their kids in harm's way in order to get wired. The Heenes are, as I have said, no better than heroin addicts who would trade their kids for their drugs. But they are no worse. I have treated addicts of every kind, some of them seemingly beyond redemption, and again and again I have found frightened, traumatized human beings inside. These human beings were hell-bent on running away from painful events in their lives, and, with help, some of them were able to stop running, turn around, face their demons and defeat them. There is always that possibility for healing, and it is always worth the effort to make that healing happen. Safety and reality have to come first, however. To that end, if it is proven that the Heenes perpetrated a stunt that required their children to lie on national television and participate in a crime that used the nation's precious resources and the efforts of real heroes on a scam, then they should surrender custody of their children. That would be a terribly painful event for their sons, each of whom has, no doubt, forged very powerful bonds with these very pained parents. But I wonder if it would matter one bit to Richard and Mayumi Heene, as long as the tearful goodbyes were carried live on all the networks. Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatry correspondent for FOX News Channel and a New York Times bestselling author. His book, "Living the Truth: Transform Your Life through the Power of Insight and Honesty" has launched a new self-help movement including

November 27, 2015

An Epidemic of Depression (Every Winter)

With the change in seasons now fully upon us, days are getting shorter, and the risk of seasonal affective disorder is turning into very real suffering for literally millions of Americans. Most of this suffering can be prevented, if people recognize the cause of their symptoms and get help.

November 27, 2015

Iran: Lessons From the Locked Psychiatry Unit

Part of my residency training in psychiatry was spent working on the locked unit at the Shattuck State Hospital in Massachusetts. It was there that I learned strategies to keep people safe when voices or visions or delusions made them threaten others with harm-whether verbally or physically. The strategies were very important, because some of the folks on the unit had never been violent, while others had been court-ordered to the Shattuck after committing very violent crimes, including murder. We needed to protect not only the staff, but patients, too.

November 27, 2015

MacKenzie Phillips: Victim or Victimizer?

Actress MacKenzie Phillips has accused her deceased father John Phillips, famous as the lead singer of The Mamas and the Papas, of having a "consensual" sexual relationship with her. She says it began when he raped her while she was semi-conscious and drugged at age 19 and continued for 10 years. She also says she hopes her revelations will help other survivors of incest.

November 27, 2015

A Killer in the Family

The recent murder cases of Annie Le at Yale, possibly by 24-year-old Yale lab technician Raymond Clark, and of Trisha Leffler by accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff obviously took the lives of two young women and shattered the lives of their families. I have treated parents of murdered children, as well as their siblings, and know that the surface scars may fade over time, but that the internal emotional bleeding-the complicated grief-never seems to end.

November 27, 2015

Models & Anorexia

With hip New Yorkers focused on Fashion Week, including the designers setting trends and the models bringing them to life, many experts are warning that the skinny women walking runways are not only at risk for eating disorders themselves, but could cause eating disorders in the young women who admire them in magazines and on television.

November 27, 2015

Face This: How Facebook Keeps Us Strangers

Elizabeth Bernstein, writing in the Wall Street Journal, astutely observes that the promise of Facebook and Twitter-to bring people closer by putting their lives online, with up-to-the-minute updates-can have the opposite effect. Many people, she writes, use "friending" and "tweeting" as a surface and synthetic way to talk about the fun outings they're planning or the fact that they just closed another sale at work.

November 27, 2015

Former Kidnap Victim Struggles With Stockholm Syndrome

Jaycee Duggard, now reunited with her family after being held captive for 18 years by convicted sexual offender Phillip Garrido, is reportedly struggling with symptoms consistent with Stockholm syndrome.

November 27, 2015

Now Starring Ryan Jenkins - As Himself

Ryan Jenkins was a famous reality TV star. He had appeared on the VH-1 series Megan Wants a Millionaire, winning the $1 million prize. He was selected for the third season of the VH-1 reality show "I Love Money," and reportedly won the $250,000 prize on that show, too (which apparently will not air).