Mental Health | Clinical psychologist

 Choose your present over past and future | secret of a happy life Life is just like a lesson we learn, gain knowledge, try to adjust in new environment or phase of life and throughout our life we learn we implement and this is how life goes on.  Sometimes we achieve our goals sometimes we don't, sometimes we fail and at another time we got success. Life is like ups and down, there is happiness as well as sadnesses.  If you are facing problems, have financial issues, have family trouble, have social pressures, dear this is what life is.  Try to live in a current situation, because you can give best of you and you have situations in your hand. Not to look at past and future because you have nothing to do with that and ofcourse you cannot. If past is full of regrets then try to understand that you can't do anything what you have done wrong in past. Try to learn from mistake and move on.  And why looking at future ? Achieve your goals one by one, have patience and ...

 This article is specially for those who lives and earn in Pakistan. This is very sad to see that in Pakistan inflation is increasing day by day and most of the people don't have enough resources to meet with the current economical condition of Pakistan.  People find difficult to fulfill their basic needs of food, shelter and security. The cases of snatching increasing with the time. The level of comfort to live in Pakistan becoming unbearable. Today on 1st of September 2023, petrol prices are again revised and now it is at 305 rupees. Few years back, the situation was not like as it is now. Things are getting out of the hand and most of the people don't find any solution. Specially people with jobs and limited salaries find difficult to feed their family the same as they used to be.  This is very miserable condition and maybe many people develop suicidal ideation or negative thinking pattern. The news of inflation making us more vulnerable to stress, anxiety and depressi...

Hadsa | A psychological analysis  Hadsa drama on geo tv recently face criticism because the story is based on the motorway incident. And per the resources, according to victim no consent was taken and this is ethicaly wrong. Any director or producer have no right to make a story on someone who is already going through a lot of things and most important this drama will again renew her negative thinking, despair, insecurities, traumatic flashes, etc. How can you make a drama on someone's life??  Where are the ethical considerations? Our media only want views, publicity, fame, money, etc.  The victim still didn't get any lead of her case and so as justice is not done. Victim reported that how can makers on air her traumatic life incident without asking for permission? Victim said that she still facing problem in going back to her normal daily life routine. The emotions and mental state of victim is very much important and no matter how long the drama serial is , it should be...

Natasha Hussain, famous model and actress, recently share her views about the host Nadir Ali. As we all know that Nadir Ali one of the famous and successful YouTuber, who currently running his show. He invites people from different fields like from showbiz, social activist, religious personality, controversial personality, and so and so forth. It has been seen number of times that Nadir Ali drag the conversation to next level where he actually degrading the women. He uses to talk about who is pretty or ugly, he used to talk about the skin color of women, and more likely to drag conversation towards sexism. I don't know why now a days double meaning conversation is so much common and normal in TV or social media.  Personally, myself as a women and a psychologist, I observe that he actually needs to go through from the ethics of conducting a interview. The guests sometimes feel uncomfortable, Nadir Ali feel no hesitation in talking about the kissing scenes of the actors and he actual...

 Situation of Minorities in Pakistan A very sad incident taken place in Jaranwala, which is located in the Fasialabad. The news and videos of that incident circulating around social media. Around 16 buildings (including the church and holy places of christians) were brunt by the mob. Most of the houses were destroyed and burned by the mob. Christian people ran away from their houses to get their self secure from the mob.  Why that incident happen? One day, a sudden news came that the christian people are involved in blasphemy. And without analyzing and confirming the news , there were the 6 people who lead the mob and went to their community to do evil act.  This is not first time in Pakistan, that minorities were attacked brutally. No one have right to punish anyone even if there is evidence. Because system have responsibility to do so. This is not the right way and Islam doesn't teaches us to do things like that. Killing people, destroying their houses, holy places, thi...

Learning is a process of gaining or acquiring knowledge through study, experience, observation, etc. Learning is a complex process it utilizes your senses to capture and gain the knowledge.  In clinical settings, psychologists use assessment tools during sessions. These assessment tools includes psychological testing. Unfortunately in Pakistan, we have psychological tests that are not based on our culture and values. And also those tests need to be validate on our population. In 2018, I have done my thesis during my MS clinical psychology. My thesis was bases on Validation of non verbal learning test. That test was made by Dr Zahid Mehmood (late) in Scotland, on nurses. That test was very unique because it includes the shapes that can be used in any culture. The shapes were not like any circle , square, etc but those shapes were very different and cannot be named.  My project was to validate it on school children age range between 8 to 10 years. And then it was suggested to co...

 Baby blues In this blog I will discuss briefly about the condition named as baby blues. It's not a disease but a condition or an emotion. Just after giving birth to a child, a woman can have this feeling, it starts after 2 or 3 days of delivery. It's symptoms include sadness, guilt and lack of interest in activities.  It may last for 2 or 3 weeks. This is due to the lack of sleep, tiredness, looking after baby 24/7, and also due to not getting enough mental, emotional and social support. It is normal for each woman to have these symptoms after delivery but one should consult a doctor or psychologist if symptoms gets worsen or lasts more than 2 to 3 weeks. do not overlook the symptoms that maybe your loved one have. Overthinking is always associated with any psychological problem or condition. Family support, spirituality or faith and social support cna help a person to overcome with the disturbing symptoms.   Look around yourself may be someone need your support.💕 I...

 For all the women and men, it is important to know all the complications in conceiving your second or next baby. It is important for both partners to prepare their self in meeting the challenges in the journey.  Second pregnancy is more difficult as compared to the 1st one. Because now you already have a child or toddler to look after. Mother have to manage her routine and healthy by looking and doing other chores. Also parents should know that your 1st baby also needs attention, affection and time from your side even after the arrival of the 2nd baby. We all know it is difficult to manage the love and time between two babies but for the mental health well being it is always important to prepare your self for the big responsibility.  Because a child is always with a future... And an adult is always with a past. .. So train them, help them, counsel them for their bright future. Anger issue is one the problem that most of the clients report during their pregnancy. what ar...

 Self esteem is defined as how a person value and perceives his or her self.  Value is about the important and worth of an individual and perception means the way of looking at yourself. Sometimes in a life we didn't give importance to ourself and that's actually degrading your self esteem. One thing is necessary to remember that never give your key of happiness in others hands. Because you will going to rely on others, your emotions, happiness, sadness will automatically depends on others behavior or attitude.  It is important to always remember the strengths you have . And also you should know your weaknesses to work on it and overcome it . So that your weaknesses will never come in achieving your goal. Here are some tips or activities that enhance self esteem in an individual. 1. Positive self talk It's about how you think about your self and talk to your self, that have a strong influence on your self esteem. Sometimes in a difficult situation a person can give hims...

 Overview To have effective therapy sessions with client and to achieve goals, client therapist relationship is always seems to be very important. In a healthy client therapist relation rapport building is one of the first and an essential step, without rapport building therapist cannot conduct a session effectively.  While conducting a session ethical considerations are always on the priority.  Identity of the client remains private and data of client remains confidential in case of research. During sessions, counselor make sure that any information of client will not be shared with others without client consent. Counselor accept the client by not focusing on his race, color, status, age, gender,etc. This is the unconditional acceptance of the client. For effective session, counselor should summarize the previous sessions in the start of the session. And also counselor should rephrase during the session (when required), what client has said. Read more from  https://...

Hi I am Anam hanif, clinical psychologist, from Lahore, Pakistan. I am here on bloggerspot.com just to write, share and explain about the mental health. How it affects an individual and to deal with it. My goal is also to make clear about the myths and misconceptions about the psychologists. Further I would like to create awareness among people regarding the psychological problems. A clinical psychologist's role is to reduce the psychological distress and also to promote the psychological well being among people. They are specialized in dealing people who have major disorders and also they can diagnose the client on the basis of the symptoms, they come with. They work in different settings like hospital, schools, organizations or offices, etc. Now Psychologists are also working online and they are trained to take online sessions. The role of clinical psychologist during therapy session is assessment and management of the symptoms or disorder of the client. Number of sessions...

 Hello welcome to my blog.. This will help you in choosing your research topic. Just to make it simple and understandable let us talk about the important steps in choosing your new research topic. First of all it is important to choose the population you want to target. To make it more easier choose whom you want to work like choose between children and adults. It depends upon your area od interest, if you feel more convenient in working with children you should go for that same for adults. Another step is to make sure that you have enough knowledge and conceptual clarity about the targeted population and also about their mental illnesses. After you choose the targeted population, now choose the problem you want to elaborate. And then search for those keywords. You will go through number of variable associated with your chosen variable. Now it's time to make a pair or trio of variables that are unique. Because research is more reliable and unique when there is something new that yo...

 In a life , full of challenges, we all have a support system to cope with the traumatic and difficult situations. It is up to you to identify your own support system. It can be your family, friends, any special person and it can be your belief system like relation with God.  To avoid any mental collapse try to identify your trustworthy support system..

 Nowadays it is clear that online earning is now trending. People who are job holder , struggling to meet the essentials of living. Because inflation in Pakistan is on peek. Stay motivated and learn about online earning sites and tools to compete with current time and needs.

 We often talk about meditation and other soothing mind relaxing exercises to get peace of mind. But there is only one point that is needed to be discussed that it is clear there no space of music in Islam. We cannot recommend a person to listen soothing music to relax him or herself. There are many other relaxing exercises that psychologist can recommend. So as a Muslim there is no any single connection between music and psychology and Islam as well. 

 In this time, Pakistan is under huge crisis due to flood destruction. Many people lost their lives, they don't have their home to love , don't have anything to fulfill the basic needs and also unable to have proper shelter.  I am not asking for the donations, I am actually thinking that why we don't have any pre monsoon strategies and why we always sit and watch the destruction caused by the flood. This is not the first time we are going through this condition.

 It's difficult to manage a routine with your toddler, when you have to manage a house and also work of office. Sometimes it's like a huge responsibility when you have to manage all work and your baby as well. Especially when you live in a nuclear family system, your baby rely on you completely. He needs your attention,time and focus all the time.  Whole day become after all so hectic and sometimes emotional. Because mother unable to take some rest. This may lead to mental toughness and emotional breakdown.  It is definite that no one can love a baby more than his mother. It's just the psychological burden that a mother can experience.  Try to look around and if you find any mother going through this phase, please at least say some motivational words to her. And encourage her. 

 When we talk about addiction what came in our mind? Addiction usually associated with the drugs like heroine, alcohol, marijuana,etc. But today I want to write about the addiction called as fast food addiction. How addiction works? When we have a craving like craving for heroine or alcohol or it might be craving for a zinger petty burger, especially the food or drug that is unhealthy for one self. When a person have a craving the brain rejected as it is the unhealthy thing to have but the some parts of the brain accept it and wanted to fullfil that craving.  Dopamine mean is a neurotransmitter that released in the brain as and cause a feeling of pleasure and reward. When you have a single zinger party burger or large fries the dopamine release to a level that is normal for your brain to have a feeling of pleasure but when just after you have a large ice cream then the dopamine that is released is in a huge amount.  If you have control over your own cravings and you do no...

 Today we are in a time where every person has an access to cell phones and social media. Cell phones are becoming very essential part of our life. But the excessive use of mobile phones leads to the mobile phone addiction that disturb a person in his or her personal life, social life and occupational or job life.  It is important to know that the excessive use of mobile phones and social media application leads to anger, depression irritability, isolation,etc. The point is how we can monitor one self whether we are addicted to our cell phones or it is normal to use cell phones. It is reported that people used to check their missed calls or messages without any ring and vibration on the phone. It means that checking phones constantly become or habit. This habit can be dangerous and negative for your personal life and your occupational life as it disturbed your functioning and you cannot focus on your work.  Make sure that you are using your cell phone when needed. Make su...

OCD is a psychological disorder that affects people of any age and it includes the cycle of obsessions and compulsions.  This is the cycle of OCD that how it works. The cycle start with the unwanted and distressful thoughts and images known as obsessions. The recurrent thoughts cause anxiety in an individual that includes restlessness and irritable mood. When an individual unable to cope with these recurrent thoughts he performed behaviour to reduce his anxiety and it can be any task that is currently causing the anxiety. When and individual perform a task he get a relief from his recurrent thoughts and negative feelings. OCD include the symptoms or the task that may be related to our daily life functioning like checking the door locks, checking your mobile phone whether it is in the bag or not, checking the tap, cleaning the floor again and again. Person feel unsatisfied even if he or she check number of times. The unsatisfaction cause them anxiety and in a result they going to pe...