Mental Health | Clinical psychologist

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 perfor

 We all know that anxiety is a response to any situation or an event that includes the symptoms of restlessness, panic,  increase heartbeat and it can beneficial for some events like you prepare yourself for your best performance while copying up your anxiety. Anxiety is not always bad it help you to prepare yourself and to perform well in any situation or an event. That makes your performance better is good for you but here comes the disorder the distress that is caused by the anxiety.   Let's talk about the health anxiety that is previously known as the hyperchondria. Hypochondria or hypochondriaces is a condition that is defined as pre occupied with the fear of being ill or having a disease.  Now a days I have seen number of cases in which people have health anxiety and they used to diagnose and they also label themselves with the number of symptoms they read from Google or any medical source. Why people with health anxiety have so much information about the disease or illness t

 Suicidal ideation Suicide is defined as an act to take your own life and suicidal ideation means the recurrent thoughts about the harming or killing your own self. There are number of reasons that why a person commit a suicide and why a person think about committing a suicide. Reasons Lack of support--it can be emotionally, socially and spiritually Lack of self love Social pressures Unable to compete with the challenges  Having anxiety Unable to cope with the situations Unable to face the problems Having low self esteem Finding own self worthless

Psycho education Psycho education is the first step in the treatment process. It means to educate the client if he or she is in normal state or to educate the family members or the attendants who are with the client. It aims to define and describe the possible symptoms and its severity and the progress of the treatment. During psycho education psychologist describe the nature of the symptoms and how they may get worse and also about the effects or side effects of the medication given to the client during the. Also how client can react in future with the symptoms and therapy. In short the nature of problem is described to the client or to the family members to give them insight about it. ..

 Depression is one of the mood disorder and it needs medication for its recovery. It depends on the symptoms, the severity of the symptoms,  and the duration of the symptoms to give the medication. There are different kinds of medication used in the treatment of depressive state. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor  Serotonin and nor epinephrine reuptake inhibitor Nor epinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors Tricyclic anti depressions ..

 Depression is a mental disorder and sadness is a part of it. Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate between depression and sadness because the both share same symptoms but different severity and duration. ✓ a person with depression must have symptoms for at least 6 months but for sadness it is just a state that tends to decrease or diminish with the period of time. ✓ daily functioning of a person affects in depression but not in the state of sadness. ✓ sadness is normal like when you have breakup or end up a relationship, when you lost a job and it can be caused by specific event but in depression person feel low, hopeless and intense sad about everything. ✓ depression includes the suicidal ideation but it is not present in the state of normal sadness. ✓ If the period or intensity of sadness increases it may result in depression. ✓ probability of self harm is present more in depressive state than a normal sadness state. ✓ depression is one of the mood disorders and it needs medica

 Hi today I am going to discuss about the online counselling sessions with the client. Aisa psychologist it is very difficult and challenging task to take online session. Because we used to take session in an appropriate setting we observe the client and his/her mental state.  Psychologist used to observe the client and his behaviour related to the mental health and all the scenarios that are associated with the client. Observation is a part of assessment as well as it leads to many hypothesis that need to be tested in the treatment portion.  During online session sometimes video call does not work and you have to take the session only on audio call. Lack of expressions and lack of observation becomes challenging for the psychologist to move further.  But now people are looking for short term therapy and they do not have time to come to hospital setting and have a proper session they just need a urgent session and the need urgent relaxment.  However for the better results and better co