dr. keith ablow joins us 10:26.t happy about this. >>> i drove into work early this morning. i'm still hearing ads for food stamps. the government is still reaching out trying to sign more people up for free food. paul ryan's budget plan tackles the food stamp mess, head-on. here's my take: first, ryan would impose a work requirement and a time limit. in other words, you can't just sit back, stay home, and take -pthe food forever. can't do that under ryan. second, he would limit the cost by handing control of the program back to the states. here's what you get, spend it as you will. third, ryan's plan has a moral component. he wants welfare to help people get out of poverty, not to lock them into dependence. that is morality. doesn't this sound a lot like bill clinton's welfare reforms? it does to me. but you can expect the obama team to fight this tooth and nail. they've been using food stamps to buy votes. vote for us, and look what we will give you. we won't make you work and besides, the rich can pay. to this ad

dr. keith ablow we are not sure. he's here to answer some of your questions. you for joining us. >> we have one e-mail that says i feel guilty i have had post traumatic distress disorder for years. i am not a soldier i can't tell anybody it is associated with military personnel exclusively. i got sick of trying to explain to people that other people get ptsd for other reasons and i didn't survive an ied, am noirmal or not? >> here's the thing that is a concern i hadn't thought about frankly. veterans do need such health the help these days it seems to be a military phenomenon. it is not just that. i would tell this woman there are all kinds of battles in life. you have been there in a way you have been traumatized. don't feel this label this man tell ought not apply to you. it does get help. >> they say i feel guilty my life is not as bad. each person's life is different and we are all ex quiz italy sensitive. your story is yours mine is mine and we need to understand all of it. >> i get a new par of soap every time i take a shower. i don't want to use an old

dr. keith ablow has some thoughts on that. folks who cut the salt from your food and big soft drinks are complaining about ear buds like on your walk-man? oh, did i date myself? i mean ipod. and see what's coming through for head phones. ♪ [ female announcer ] from tracking the bus. ♪ to tracking field conditions. ♪ wireless is limitless. [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. ♪ to more efficient pick-ups. ♪ wiress is limitless. >> new question he today about a florida lawmakers unique approach to curb gun violence. if she gets her way anybody who wants to buy bullets will have to sit through anger management chases. this is the brainchild of senate senator audrey gibson. you have to take a two-hour course and show a certificate of completion before you buy ammo. criticism from gun rights advocates already piling up. dr. keith ablow, the medical a-team, has thoughts on this. she says that people are just more impatient than they used to be and cites road rage as an example and say they need to be slowed down and ha

dr. keith ablow is here. we could put all the blame on social young for this? >> no.e blame goes to social media. it is also with teachers, low standards, schools that have low standards for teachers, sports teams that give trophies to kids who have not excelled. we have dummied down achievements in the interest of popping up kids and their narcissism. facebook is public enemy number one in the narcissism epidemic. charles: where do we draw the line? i kind of worry about the opposite. the kids that are afraid to go out there and look for a job and they just go hide out in the basement. >> i get you with that. the last thing we want to do is talk down the real abilities of our kids. there is another thing, charles, it is called reality. it is tough to make real friends. i have had young people tell me, listen, i do not want to pay attention to how many likes i get on facebook, but i cannot help it. you try not to participate, you feel as if you have to. you know it is bad for you, but you do it anyhow. these sites are infecting our people. they say they do not want an

dr. keith ablow thank you very much. time for your gold report. it's 9:49 eastern. where are we?567. it is down $7 today. by the way, the dow is back above 14,300. how about that? the death of hugo chavez a big loss for actor sean penn. you won't believe what he said about the venezuelan dictator's passing. sandra smith and charles payne have something to say about it. they're next. ♪ >> the man who once called president george w. bush el diablo is dead. hugo chavez died of cancer. and sean penn said the people of the united states lost a friend it never knew it had and poor people around the world lost a champion. where do you want to start, charles? >> well, he was never a friend he didn't have and we're up on that. it's the notion that poor people should be coded, should be spoon-fed and really is a negative notion that they don't have the -- they don't have what it takes to make it on their own. you didn't pull yourself up by your boot straps, but we will take from people who have and-- >> hugo chavez says you poor people are being stamped on by the rich and we're going to ta

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dr. keith ablow every week. >> gretchen: and joining us now to answer e-mails, fox news contributor and psychiatristthis segment at least, right? so here is the first e-mail. lights see if we can stump you. my girlfriend still carries a teddy bear around with her, not just sleeps with it, but carries it around in her purse. it doesn't matter if she's going to work, the movies, or we're out for a really nice dinner. she has to have the bear tucked into the pocket of her purse. is this normal? i was with him for the first sentence, but after that, he lost me. >> there you go. i think it's really not normal. >> steve: if she's seven. >> if she's seven, it's normal. but the reason it's not normal is she can't go anywhere without this. it's beyond a good luck charm where you're like, i don't have it with me and i'll take it next time. she can't go anywhere without the bear. so my advice to take a little serious turn here to her boyfriend is gently ask her, what are you hoping the bear protects you from? second step in this delicate dance is, what do you wish the bear had protected you from? now, now you

dr. keith ablow every week. joining us to answer e-mail social security dr. keith ablow. hi. >> hi.. this is a perfect question on the heels of us both having steak for breakfast. we got an e-mail from somebody who says, i'm obsessed with how my food is prepared. if i see the counter where my salad is being chopped down haven't been wiped down, i refuse to eat it. am i normal or nuts? >> i'm going to give this a normal because i don't tend to like inspect the salad bar counter. but if you noticed that it was completely grimy, i guess you'd say listen, i pass. on the other hand, if this is becoming a problem and we just heard an example and that there are other examples of this behavior in this person, then i would say you need another visit with the doctor. come back after class. >> brian: let's go to another one. my husband says it drives him crazy when i say i need to ask you something. he says, i do this all the time and he wants me to stop of the i don't see why it drives him so crazy. is he normal or nuts? >> well, i'm out on a limb 'cause i don't know the couple of the but i'm

dr. keith ablow from the mental a team is here with answers. good morning dr. keith.s my friends think i am crazy i am extremely afraid of germs. i carry around my wet wipes to wipe things down before i touch them. i won't touch an atm or door handle with my own hands when i go out to eat i have to sanitize my silver wear. cold and flu season okay but silver wear that's a bit much. >> your friends i would tell this woman they are right. you are not normal. i don't se i don't say it with glee i say it with concern. these germs are not really a threat. you can't believe that. that's why ocd is called an anxiety disorder. you are overly anxious. medicine you can conquer it. >> i have refused to fly and have never flown because i am afraid. it doesn't come from a bad experience always afraid of flying. i am about to get married now and my husband loves travel. i am worried my fear of flying could ruin our future together is it normal? >> it's not a crazy concern. it's a normal concern, you should be worried. not necessarily because you can't fly over to europe together an

dr. keith ablow is a psychiatrist and a member of our fox news medical a-team and now, we've had to talkbout this to some extent before. now we have the evidence and the actual text messages that were going back and forth. i'm not jumping to any conclusions about whether this was rape because the defendants say it wasn't, they say it was consensual and they say that she went to that party having allegedly claimed she wanted to have sex with football players. that's their defense. but what happened, according to the testimony we've heard so far, is this girl had about a half a bottle of vodka before of she got to the parties in addition to a beer. she was so drunk, she was throwing up on herself, she was falling over. there's the infamous picture of her allegedly attacker carrying her like she's an animal, pass out or near passed out according to the witness's testimony and these are the texts after the fact that one of the defendants, mays, that's one of the defendants, his teammates to the right of each other, and mays begs the friend you've got to say she was asleep and say she was pas

dr. keith ablow, a psychiatrist and fox news contributor. and he joins us now from boston. okay, doc.ll us what your distelzweig diagnosis is here. diagnosis is here. you saw this play out. getting petroleum meld by pro-gay ads. culture is knocking on the doors of american families on this issue. and meanwhile you have this doma, the defense of marriage act and this long-standing stephanie angel that a man and a woman together is good for sewed what is your take on this. >> here is my take. with these cases reaching the supreme court i don't think states nor the federal government should be involved in marriage at all. we shouldn't be expressing. the government shouldn't be expressing a preference for whether two people of any gender get together. and call themselves married. that should be a matter for their religious institutions, gatherings of friends, and then you simply do an agreement financially as to what the world will look like if you decide not to be quote, unquote, married. we're not canine. we are not beagles, we don't need to head to town hall or city hall for a marriage

dr. keith ablow during our commercial break about what's fueling the stock market rally.we're going to have that fight live next. here is what got charles so fired up. >> we could be in another bubble, where we're printing money, it's sustaining a fiction and we have to pay with pain later. so, i worry that folks who think they're investing could be part of a kind of mass lack of reality. i do worry about that. but we can still help you see your big picture. with the fidelity guid portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity's analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and fige out what you want to do next. i'm meredith stoddard and i helped create the fidelity guided portfolio summary. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. stuart: if the stock market a bubble? is it bernanke's bubble? does the stock market high roof like big profit for corporations? we have them both covered on varney & company. it is an opinion that bernanke did it. it is an opinion the prophets

dr. keith ablow. joining us from boston.st question, my husband insists i sample all his food served in restaurants. he continues to insist. is that normal, dr. keith? >> is that normal? she already knows this. no. this guy is crazy. he's a control freak. so unless he's read "50 shades of grey" 50 times and she bought it for him and they like this dominant submissive stuff, then it's not sensible. what do you do? you order that food he says you should order and then throw it at him. that's the cure. >> steve: maybe he just like a food tester. maybe it's a safety issue. >> gretchen: with his wife? >> i think maybe he's trying to keep himself safe from something >> steve: you try first, honey. >> gretchen: wow, okay. >> force feeder. >> gretchen: showering like crazy. i won't go to bed until i have showered. i like to feel clean. i take two showers a day in the evening to wash the day away and another in the morning. i feel i am normal, but some people say it's not. dr. keith? >> some people might say that's not normal. i'm go

dr. keith ablow said we're all self medicating.ecause there's an actual physical response that you get to the fat molecule and it makes you feel if you have certain knew rosies. for instance, when i'm studying for the show. that's me being anxious. feel the anxiety. i'm popping things into my mouth because it is sort of soothing to be eating while you're studying and thinking. he said that's a really syndrome and part of why people are overweight. >> better m&ms than pills, though. >> i don't know. >> then you could end up in the hospital later from being obese and having issues. tucker, you are a cynical eater. what does that mean. >> i'm not sure, but i've been diagnosed after all these years of working around the news business as being cynical. that apparently in some way makes you fat. i'm just hungry, basically. that's kind of my problem. >> my problem is like if a bag of chips just shows up here or like a pastry tray like that, i'm just impulsive. i'll just grab that puppy and shove it in. that's my problems. a bag of chips,

dr. keith ablow is here to attempt to explain this. dr. he fiscal cliff, with the debt ceiling, with see sequestration they take us right up to the edge and usually at the 11th hour, at 11:59 p.m. they come up with a deal this time we didn't with sequestration. is this procrastination or something else going on? >> it's one of two things. both with the same source because here's the thing. who pro-crass continue united states? always it it's folks seeking to avoid some kind of pain or discomfort. it's kids who don't want to do their homework until the 11th hour. it's folks who don't want to stop eating so they can lose weight because, why? it's going to be uncomfortable. they are not going to be able to feel as much pleasure. i think our legislators, similarly, at least on one side of the aisle, have had the same mind set. which is we don't want to feel any pain so why do we have to sequester anything? can't we come up with some way to avoid any discomfort at all? >> more broadly about procrastination in this country we will do segments abo

dr. keith ablow with normal or nuts and these folks all in the after the show show. >> gretchen: go on tourlando. >> we start in orlando. >> gretchen: have a great day. >> steve: see you tomorrow, everybody. bill: closing in on history. could it be the dow nearing a record high after a steady climb? we watched this go for a couple months now. while wall street is riding high the same can not be said for all of main street. good morning, everybody. numbers are going up. i'm bill hemmer. well come to "america's newsroom". martha: i'm martha maccallum. good morning, everybody. look at this chart to show you how this plays out. pretty nice chart for the dow jones industrials for the past three months. a huge surge. but the problem it is not felt in the economy and in the jobs market. bill: stuart varney, especially in the jobs market. anchor of "varney & company" on the fox business network. >> good morning bill. bill: we might hit a record when open today. >> 29 minutes from now the dow jones industrial average very likely we open at a higher level than the previous high close. the previous hi

dr. keith ablow. >> president obama got another break, a real pain in the butt for any american presidenting bush he's a dangerous man in a dangerous country, and he's dead. >> i'm sure in the white house now there's no glee i think there's probably some profound sadness. >> you really believe so? >> of course. this is his comrade. >> is that your medical opinion, doctor? >> stephanie: yes, that's his considered opinion as a doctor of blow. >> this guy, i swear to god there has to be some diagnosis -- can we get dr. first on the phone? maybe he can do it over the transmission. has to be something about a guy who just wants to be liked by everybody from an extremist group, and i mean the [ inaudible ] watching fox news. >> stephanie: exactly. we finish with newt gingrich. >> i don't know what the purpose of cpac is anymore. cpac at one time was sort of the militant wing of the conservative movement, the place where ronald reagan gave his a famous speech about bold colors. it is huge. it draws lots and lots of people particularly students, but i don't know how they define who gets to come i

dr. keith ablow. he's here next. >> jesse: this looks like something you'd see in alice in wonderland.it go? >> that's after you take the club drug. ♪ in the easter parade ♪ ♪ ill he' be in clover and when they look us over ♪ we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ >> 53 minutes past the hour. it's been used as a recognizanrec recreational drug. now it's being used as a drug for depression. is it a break through drug? can a club drug really be used to cure depression? >> well, clayton they're calling this possibly the biggest advance in psychiatric medicine in the last 50 years. the answer is, yes. it seems as though giving ketamine iv, rather than the concentration in clubs, people who are depressed or anxiety disorder, can sometimes reverse those symptoms sometimes in minutes. it's a revolution in mental health care potentially. >>

dr. keith ablow on the phone to interpret this. >>> let's talk about what's going on in new york city.ble to get a giant big gulp any more, those giant vats of soda because the mayor's office has put the kabosh on the large 32-ounce gallons of soda that you can't get any more when you come to the city. this is having an adverse effect on the businesses that create and manufacture the bottles and the production quality of the soft drinks. >> they have to make the bottles smaller because the bottles that they currently make are 16.9 ounces, so that .9 ounce is going to cost them millions and millions of dollars because they have to retrofit all of their equipment like you see here, make new machines to just make 16-ounce bottles instead of the added .9. >> you know what this has nothing to do with at all? science. there's no empirical evidence that this ban will cause anybody to lose a single pound. here's what i think the soda maker should do, take a page from the gun manufacturers and ammunition manufacturers in various states passing gun control and say we're leaving if you do that. c