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Blog 5 – Substance Usage Disorder – Alcohol   Disclaimer: 1.         Drinking Alcohol and Other Substance Intoxication are injuries to Heath 2.         This Blog didn’t endorse drinking 3.         This is purely education purpose Alcohol is one of most common intoxication taken from adolescent to old age. The main reason for this might be easily available across all places. In recent decade drinking alcohol is seen as status symbol, peer compulsion and pain relief, celebration, sadness and all other human emotion. Indian cinema particularly Tamil cinema highly endorses this habit. Tamil cinema without this drinking scene will very rare these days.  Alcohol Usage Disorder (AUD) is one of the common and under treatment problem in health industry. Most AUD cases are misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed in hospitals. Is there is completely safe amount of alcohol? What do yo...

  In last blog we seen about OCD and Mood disorders with continuation we going analyse few other disorders treat by psychiatrist   Anxiety Disorder: Fear is one of the basic emotions of all animals including humans. The young animal will experience fear when they separated from their nurturing Mother. Animals in the wild will experience fear while they see their predators. Same applies to human child start crying when they cannot able to see their mother. As I said fear is inevitable for human kind, dysregulation of fear may also lead to few disorders. These dysregulations can show up as sudden spike or persistent generalised anxiety disorder. This fear overlaps the brain system with depression so it common that most depressive disorders have anxiety disorders as comorbid, but there are few anxiety disorders that affect without depression. The most common outcome of anxiety disorder is Panic attack, it can be characterized by high palpitation of heart, feels like dying o...

Abstract: ·        Background: dissociative trance disorder (DTD) is a rare dissociative condition characterised by altered Consciousness and identity disturbance which cannot be explained by neurological disorders, psychosis or culturally accepted religious practices ·        Case Presentation: we report the case of a 22 years old female homemaker from Maharashtra with history of childhood neglect, sexual abuse, domestic violence. With the sudden death of her new born and all these stressors she developed the recurrent episodes of altered Consciousness and uncontrolled movement with results in the death of the two own children. Neurological, laboratory investigation is normal whereas her psychological assessment supported a severe emotional distress and dissociative symptoms ·          Treatment: patient treated with both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapies like CBT which improved her d...

Topic: What do psychiatrists/psychologists do? What do they treat? At the end of blog 1 we broke a few myths around mental illness, their treatments, and diagnostic criteria. Now we might get the question you are saying mental disorders can’t be found using normal tests then how do you find them? What do you treat? To know answer to question lets know the difference between the psychologists and psychiatrist   Psychologists Psychiatrist Education Studies psychology and human behaviour Study medicine (MBBS) and specialize in psychiatry Focus Focus on understanding thoughts, behaviour and emotions Focus on treating mental disorders and provide required medications What they do Uses psychology assessment and psychotherapy for treatment but they cannot able to prescribe medication in most countries Can diagnose, prescribe medications since they are medical doctors they can also provide psychotherapy but based on their training on that What they treat They treat anxiety, depression, str...