Mental Health | Clinical psychologist

 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 not have any wit

 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 sure when phone

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 ..