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Case Studies and some commonly encountered psychological problems
Histrionic personality disorder
Hysteria, dramatic, seductive, shallow, egocentric, attention-seeking, vain. Overreact to minor events. Exhibitionistic as a means of securing attention and favors. See themselves as attractive and charming. Constantly seeking others' attention. Disorder is...
Antisocial personality disorder
Impulsive, irresponsible, deviant, unruly. Act without due consideration. Involves in physical fights or assaults. Meet social obligations only when self-serving. Disrespect societal customs, rules, and standards. See themselves as free and independent. People with...
Schizotypal personality disorder These people experience cognitive or perceptual distortions behaves in an eccentric manner, self-estranged, bizarre, absent. Exhibit peculiar mannerisms and behaviors. Think they can read thoughts of others. Preoccupied with odd...
Schizoid personality disorder
These are common characterstics seen in Schizoid personality disorder; Apathetic, indifferent, remote, solitary, distant, humorless, contempt, odd fantasies Neither desire nor need human attachments. Withdrawn from relationships and prefer to be alone Little interest...
Paranoid Personality disorder
Persons with Paranoid personality disorder have a pervasive, persistent and inappropriate mistrust of others. They appear guarded, defensive, distrustful and suspicious. Hypervigilant to the motives of others to undermine or do harm. Always seeking confirmatory...
Psychological Problems in Women
Mental disorders can affect women and men differently. Some disorders are more common in women such as Depression and Anxiety. There are also certain types of disorders that are unique to women. For example, some women may experience symptoms of mental disorders at...
Schizophrenia
Charak has said that the vitiated doshas evade the brains of the persons whose mind is under rajasik and tamasik influences and block channels of mind and nerve impulses. Because of this, the functioning of mind and intelligence gets affected. The person fails to...
World Mental Health Day
WHO declared world mental health day on October 10th since 1992. The main objective behind the world mental health day celebration is to educate the importance of mental health and giving awareness about mental health issues and its impact on an individual's life and...
Alzheimer’s Disease
Every year September 21st is recognizing as World Alzheimer's day around the world. This is an international campaign aimed at raising awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds Alzheimer's related dementia. Alzheimer's is a progressive...
World Suicide Prevention Day
World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) is observed on 10 September every year, in order to provide worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides, with various activities around the world since 2003. An estimated one million people per year die by suicide or about...
Success and Failure
#Success and failure are like two faces of a coin. In our life, we always come across with both the situations one or the other time. It may be qualifying a #sport, passing an #exam, getting a #promotion in the workplace, or #balancing a good relationship with the...
ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER / SOMATIC SYMPTOMS DISORDERS / HYPOCHONDRIOSIS
A girl of 17years age studying in the 12th standard complained of mild throat pain and got treatment from family physicians and recovered. But she developed a fear of COVID-19 and since then she is not able to focus on studies as well as her routine.A 40 years old man...
Emotional Issues in Children
Emotional issues in children "Emotion' is a broad term that is a biological state associated with the nervous system brought on by neurophysiological changes associated with those thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and pleasure. Emotions produce different...
Family Therapy
The word "Family" look's very simple yet significant. When we look deeper into its definition, "family" is a basic social unit consisting of a mother, a father, and their children. In Indian culture, "family" includes even grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins...
Bed Wetting/ Nocturnal Enuresis
It is defined as an involuntary passage of urine after the age of 3-4 years, and failure to control the urinary bladder during sleep without any physical abnormality. Usually enuretic children are more psychologically disturbed than non-enuretic kids. We have...