psychiatry

Services provided

• Diagnosis, treatment, management and prevention of mental health issues
• Prescribing appropriate medication
• Psychotherapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy, family therapy etc
• Lifestyle and behavioural advice

ADULT PSYCHIATRY

1.Depression

Depression is a common but serious mood disorder. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working.

2.Anxiety Disorders

Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. You might feel anxious when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or making an important decision. But anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. For a person with an anxiety disorder, the anxiety does not go away and can get worse over time. The feelings can interfere with daily activities such as job performance, school work, and relationships.

3.Substance Use Disorders

Alcohol,Tobacco ,Cannabis and Other Drugs- Deaddiction Treatment.

Can addiction be treated?

Yes. Addiction can be treated successfully. There has been significant scientific research over the years in the field of addiction and its treatment. This has led to the development of evidence-based interventions in substance use disorders that helps people stop abusing alcohol and other drugs and resume sober, productive lives.

4.Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disorder in which a person will perform rituals to reduce anxiety. OCD causes the affected person to perform rituals, or compulsive habits. These rituals temporarily reduce the discomfort that comes with anxiety.

The anxiety that a person with OCD experiences is triggered by obsessive thoughts. These thoughts are difficult to manage. They are only eased by performing compulsive rituals.

People with OCD repeat rituals in effort to ease the discomfort that is caused by anxiety and obsessive thoughts.

5.Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling

6.Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder is a serious brain illness. It is also called manic-depressive illness or manic depression. People with bipolar disorder go through unusual mood changes. Sometimes they feel very happy and “up,” and are much more energetic and active than usual. This is called a manic episode. Sometimes people with bipolar disorder feel very sad and “down,” have low energy, and are much less active. This is called depression or a depressive episode.

Bipolar disorder is not the same as the normal ups and downs everyone goes through. The mood swings are more extreme than that and are accompanied by changes in sleep, energy level, and the ability to think clearly.

7.Dementia and forgetfulness

Dementia is a decline of reasoning, memory, and other mental abilities (the cognitive functions). This decline eventually impairs the ability to carry out everyday activities such as driving; household chores; and even personal care such as bathing, dressing, and feeding (often called activities of daily living, or ADLs).Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia. Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), also known as neuropsychiatric symptoms, represent a heterogeneous group of non-cognitive symptoms and behaviors occurring in subjects with dementia. BPSD constitute a major component of the dementia syndrome irrespective of its subtype. BPSD include agitation, aberrant motor behavior, anxiety, elation, irritability, depression, apathy, disinhibition, delusions, hallucinations, and sleep or appetite changes

8.Adjustment Disorder

Adjustment disorder is a group of symptoms, such as stress, feeling sad or hopeless, and physical symptoms that can occur after you go through a stressful life event. The symptoms occur because you are having a hard time coping, and the reaction is stronger or greater than what would be expected for the type of event that occurred.

9.Personality Disorders

Personality disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions in which a person’s long-term (chronic) behaviors, emotions, and thoughts are very different from their culture’s expectations and cause serious problems with relationships and work

Personality Disorders are mental illnesses that share several unique qualities. They contain symptoms that are enduring and play a major role in most, if not all, aspects of the person’s life.

10.Sleep Related Problems

Sleep disorders are problems with sleeping, including trouble falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at the wrong times, too much sleep, or abnormal behaviors during sleep

11.Specific phobias and fears

New places, high bridges, old elevators may make all of us a bit uneasy or even frightened. We might try to avoid things that make us uncomfortable, but most people generally manage to control their fears and carry out daily activities without incident. But people with specific phobias, or strong irrational fear reactions, work hard to avoid common places, situations, or objects even though they know there’s no threat or danger. The fear may not make any sense, but they feel powerless to stop it. Having phobias can disrupt daily routines, limit work efficiency, reduce self-esteem, and place a strain on relationships because people will do whatever they can to avoid the uncomfortable and often-terrifying feelings of phobic anxiety.

12.Psychosexual Disorder

Sexual problems can be physiological and psychological or a combination of both in origin. Psychosexual disorders can also vary in severity and intensity, some will be temporary, others more long term.

Up to 54% of women and 35% of men may experience sexual problems, and yet many can find these issues difficult to talk about. Suffering from a sexual disorder can have a very detrimental effect on relationships and on self-esteem, and become the source of anxiety, depression and stress, so it is important to seek treatment wherever possible.

Child and Adolescent psychiatry

We extend help through child and parent friendly approach towards evaluation, diagnosis and management of child and adolescent .Child guidance, adolescent behavioural problems and student counseling services are rendered too

1.Children Learning Disorders

Learning disabilities, or learning disorders, are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. Kids with learning disabilities aren’t lazy or dumb. In fact, most are just as smart as everyone else. Their brains are simply wired differently. This difference affects how they receive and process information.

2.Children Exam Stress

The term ‘Exam Stress’ can be broadly defined as a feeling of anxiety over one’s performance in the exams, the results and reaction of parents and friends; all weigh upon students to create exam stress. Many students find themselves weighed down by expectations. Comparisons, parental expectations and peer pressure are major concerns for students attempting their board exams. These concerns bog students down, leading to severe examination stress.

3.Temper Tantrums in Children

Overview

Child tantrum is a very common behavioral problem which is witnessed by every parent at one time or another. Temper tantrum usually occurs from age 1 to 4 years. Children demonstrate varied behavior patterns like crying, screaming, lying on the floor, kicking etc.

4.Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that appears in early childhood. You may know it by the name attention deficit disorder.

We all know kids who can’t sit still, who never seem to listen, who don’t follow instructions no matter how clearly you present them, or who blurt out inappropriate comments at inappropriate times. Sometimes these children are labeled as troublemakers, or criticized for being lazy and undisciplined. However, they may have ADHD.

5.Children Sleep Disorders

Sleep problems are common in childhood The parasomnias—sleep terrors, somnambulism and enuresis—appear to be related to central nervous system

6.Intellectual Disability (IQ problem)

Intellectual disability1 involves problems with general mental abilities that affect functioning in two areas:

• Intellectual functioning (such as learning, problem solving, judgement).
• Adaptive functioning (activities of daily life such as communication and independent living).