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promoting child mental health
21Oct

Child Psychiatry
21Oct

12Oct

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a tormenting illness that makes one oscillate between the realms of reality and those derived from the confines of one’s mind. Knowing what is not logical and yet being unable to convince oneself despite wanting to; is the biggest agony there can be for anyone.

But why does this happen?

How does it start?

Why doesn’t it stop?

Well, there are multiple reasons for the same, some having been proved scientifically and some not.

So, it might all start with some background detailing: an over religious family instilling strong moral sense of responsibility, a mother with overindulgence into cleaning and washing reinforcing the same into her young offspring or a severe psychological trauma inculcating fear and guilt which might be repressed.

These early life experiences may act as determinants for future learnings.

An untoward incident may act as a trigger to initiate a fear response which is then maintained by reinforcement of safety and protective behaviors. Absence or lack of these safety behaviors leads to severe, unbearable anxiety which makes one cross over the barrier of logic and indulge into the anxiety relieving safety behaviors. Over a period of time, such behaviors become a part of one’s being albeit with some insight and reluctance.

A thorough awareness and understanding of evolution of one’s own illness can markedly improve the success of treatment. Hence, a combination of medication and Psychotherapy is the most recommended treatment for OCD.

4Oct

Challenges that young people face:

  • bullying
  • internet
  • gender issues
  • academic pressures
  • career challenges
  • psychoactive substance use/ Drugs
  • sexual abuse/threat
  • relational issues
  • quicker onset into adulthood
  • cyber crimes – blackmail, sexual threats
  • peer pressures
  • need for financial independence
  • unattainable virtual world  demands
  • gaming addiction
  • pornography addiction
4Oct

World Mental Health Day 2018 – Young people and mental Health in a Changing World!

Challenges that young people face : Internet addiction

I have 1034 friends, and all of them like me a lot
I think I can be called a leader, there are a lot many who follow me
There is a lot of chatter in my life, coz I tweet and retweet all the day
I am a sporty fellow, I tend to be gaming all the way
But, yes I crave for companionship, who may like me or not..
But are with me, as they say in the books “through thick and thin”
I do not always wish to follow or be followed, I wish there was one who walked with me..
By my side, matching my steps, and may be holding my hand
In the noisy chitter chatter, I do miss the silence..
Wanting to understand the gaze, making sense of the quiet, straddling the stillness…
Yes, amidst the crowd, I want to be with me
Flickering fingers do get tired
May be I want to run across the ground, with a gay abandon
No one watching but me
The cloud of my ideas, my thoughts is burst by the tring of the phone
It’s not just a phone, it’s a world in itself
It crosses my mind may it’s a trap, but I shut the thought as it’s all my life
It’s a text, it’s a forward meaningless to the core
But I attend to it like my life depends on this
It’s so complex that when I get a text on the trap of this all
I need to forward this to all to  quell my urge