Month: July 2021

Medication (if needed)

Supportive Therapy

SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM DISORDERS

Delusional Disorder

Delusional disorder is characterized by firmly held false beliefs (delusions) that persist for at least 1 month, without other symptoms of psychosis. A delusion is a firm false belief that continues to exist despite evidence to the contrary. The belief can be regarding any usual aspect of the person’s life but is not believed by anyone else except him since it is not true. Examples may include, infidelity of spouse, that one is being harmed or one is being loved by someone. A person with a delusion will be convinced that his/her belief is true and misinterpret new information to confirm the delusion. However, other than the delusion, the person may be able to function adequately in other aspects of life. Thus, a delusion may exist for a long time before it causes a crisis or conflict.

Delusional disorder is distinguished from schizophrenia by the presence of delusions without any other symptoms of psychosis (eg, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, negative symptoms). Delusional disorder may arise from a preexisting paranoid personality disorder. In such people, a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others and their motives begin in early adulthood and extend throughout life.

Early symptoms may include the feeling of being exploited, preoccupation with the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends, a tendency to read threatening meanings into benign remarks or events, persistent bearing of grudges, and a readiness to respond to perceived slights.

Worried that you / your loved one may be suffering from Delusional Disorder?

Since the past 1 month or more,

Do you tend to get angry or frustrated very easily?
Do you feel that your thoughts tend to get fixed in your mind and you can’t get your mind off them?
Do you feel that your thoughts have a definite impact on others as though you can control things or ‘do things’ with your thoughts?
Do you feel that your thoughts, feelings and actions are being controlled by someone else?
Do you believe that other people can read your mind, or you can read others’ minds?
Do you find it difficult to relate to other people and trust them?

If you have said yes to most of the above, we might be able to help you.

Treatments we can help you with:

Counselling

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

Cognitive Behaviour therapy

Eating Disorders

Bulimia Nervosa

In Bulimia Nervosa, a person tends to have an inconsistent pattern of eating. Sometimes the person overeats so much that exceeds his/her normal amount (binge-eating) and at other times, the person tries to compensate his over-eating to prevent weight gain by engaging in behaviours such as self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, fasting or using laxative and diuretics. The nutritional deficiency caused by eating disorders can have a negative impact on vital organs or have life-threatening consequences.

Worried that you might have Bulimia Nervosa:

Do you ever eat until you feel sick?
Do you feel guilty, ashamed or depressed after you eat?
Do you forcefully vomit right after eating?
Do you experience a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g. a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).?
Do you feel uncomfortable eating around others?
Do you create lifestyle schedules or rituals to make time for binge-and-purge sessions?
Do you show extreme concern with body weight and shape?
Do you frequently check in the mirror for perceived flaws in appearance?

Treatments, we provide that can help you:

Diet Counselling

Body Image consulting

Adulthood Disorders main

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that follows an event that the person finds terrifying, either physically or emotionally, causing the person who experienced the event to have persistent, frightening thoughts and memories, or flashbacks, of the ordeal. Sometimes after effects from the traumatic events can be delayed for 6 months or longer, but when PTSD occurs soon after an event, the condition generally improves after 3 months. Some people with PTSD have long-term effects and often feel chronically, emotionally numb. PTSD in children usually becomes a chronic disorder.

Worried that you or your loved one might be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder?

Do you or your loved one have sleep disturbances?
Are you or your loved one feel jittery or “on guard”, losing touch with reality?
Do you or your loved one have a loss of interest in things they used to enjoy; appears detached, has general lack of responsiveness, feeling numb?
Do you or your loved one have trouble feeling affectionate and avoids certain places or situations that bring back memories?
Are you or your loved one often irritable, more aggressive than before, or even violent?
Do you or your loved one have flashbacks or intrusive images (flashbacks can come in the form of images, sounds, smells, or feelings; a person usually believes that the traumatic event is happening all over again)?
Do you or your loved one often worry about dying at an early age?
Do you or your loved one have regressive behaviours; acting younger than their age (such as thumb-sucking or bedwetting)?

Treatments we can help you with:

Cognitive behaviour therapy

Stress Management

Relaxation Training

Crisis Intervention

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

Mood Disorders

Bipolar Disorder

People with a Bipolar Disorder experience both the lows of depression and the highs of mania. Many describe their life as an emotional roller coaster, as they shift back and forth between extreme moods. The two key moods involved are mania, often characterized by intense and unrealistic feelings of excitement and euphoria, and depression, which usually involves feelings of extraordinary sadness and dejection.

People with Bipolar Disorders experience manic episodes at certain time points and depressive episodes at other time points. A person who experiences a manic episode has a markedly elevated, euphoric and expansive mood, often interrupted by occasional outbursts of intense irritability or even violence – particularly when others refuse to go along with the manic person’s scheme and wishes. Manic and depressive mood states are often conceived to be at opposite ends of a mood continuum, with normal mood in the middle. However, sometimes the person may have symptoms of mania and depression during the same time period.

Am I / my loved one suffering from Bipolar disorder?

Have you experienced a continually abnormal, inflated, unrestrained, or irritable mood as well as continually heightened energy or activity, for most of every day, for 7 days or more?
Do you experience a reduced need for sleep?
Do you feel an increased desire to continue talking?
Do you experience a rapid shift in ideas or the sense that your thoughts are moving very fast?
Do you feel highly distracted and/or extremely restless?
Have you engaged in risky and potentially problematic activities, like casual sexual encounters, overspending, gambling, multiple times over the past few weeks?
Do these symptoms cause significant distress or impairment in day – to – day functioning?

If you have said yes to most of the above, we might be able to help you.

Treatments, we provide that can help you:

Pharmacotherapy (medication), if required

Interpersonal Therapy

PERSONALITY DISORDERS

Cluster a personality disorders:- Includes Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal

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People with Cluster A disorders often seem odd or eccentric, with unusual behaviour ranging
from distrust and suspiciousness to social detachment.

Paranoid. These people are suspicious and quick to take offense. They often have few confidants and may read hidden meaning into innocent remarks.
Schizoid. These patients care little for social relationships, have a restricted emotional range, and seem indifferent to criticism or praise. Tending to be solitary, they avoid close (including sexual) relationships.
Schizotypal. Interpersonal relationships are so difficult for these people that they appear peculiar or strange to others. They lack close friends and are uncomfortable in social situations. They may show suspiciousness, unusual perceptions or thinking, eccentric speech, and inappropriate emotion.

Worried if you / your loved one have/has a Personality Disorder?

Does the way you think, feel and behave cause you or others significant problems in daily life?
Does the way you think, feel and behave causes significant problems across more than one aspect of your life?
Have you been experiencing these problems for a long time?

If you have said yes to most of the above, we might be able to help you.

Treatments we provide that can help you:

Medication (if required)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Behaviour Therapy

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Interpersonal Therapy

Adulthood Disorders

Relationships Problems

All relationships and families go through difficult times and experiencing occasional problems and conflict in personal relationships is normal. However, sometimes these problems can become overwhelming. and the failure of a relationship is often a source of great psychological anguish. While there are many different types of problems that can plague a relationship, there are some common issues that many modern couples deal with at one point or another in their relationship, especially if they have been together for a long time like infidelity, jealousy, sexual problems, communication gaps & inability to strike a balance between personal & professional life. Treatment helps the client understand, idntify & analyse the problems in the relationships & find solutions for a happier life.

Worried that your relationships might be at stake?

Have you lost the spark in your relationship like before?
In recent past have you been spending less time with each other ?
Does all your differences in opinion result in fights and arguments?
Have you stopped sharing the same bed with each other?
Do you both talk only when it is required?
You don’t seem to remember when was the last time you got intimate with each other?

Treatments, we provide that can help you:

Couple Counselling

Sex therapy

Family therapy

Interpersonal Therapy

Adulthood Disorders

Obsessive – compulsive disorder

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) a disorder characterized by recurrent intrusive or uncontrollable thoughts, causing stress (obsessions) that prompt the performance of rituals in a repetitive manner (compulsions). A person with OCD can have either obsessive thoughts and urges or compulsive, repetitive behaviours, or even both. Typical obsessions involve themes of contamination, dirt, or illness (fearing that one will contract or transmit a disease) and doubts about the performance of certain actions (e.g., a preoccupation that one has neglected to turn off a home appliance). Common compulsive behaviours include repetitive cleaning or washing, checking, ordering, repeating, and hoarding. Compulsions tend to relieve the anxiety, but only for a little while.

While such individuals realise that their seemingly uncontrollable behaviour is irrational, they are unable to stop. Their daily life is affected as simple tasks or chores take the form of insurmountable problems. Relationships with family and friends can often become strained or problematic.

Worried that you / your loved one might have OCD?

Do you ever experience repetitive thoughts that cause you anxiety?
Do you ever fear germs or engage in excessive cleaning?
Are you constantly worried that something bad will happen because you forgot something important, like locking the door or turning off appliances?
Are there things you feel you must do excessively or thoughts you must think repeatedly to feel comfortable or ease anxiety?
Do you experience the need to constantly check on something or arrange things?
Do you wash yourself or things around you excessively?
Do you keep many useless things because you feel that you can’t throw them away?
Do you struggle to control these thoughts or behaviours?
Do you spend at least one hour a day thinking obsessive thoughts or performing these ritual behaviours?

Treatments, we provide that can help you:

Behaviour Therapy

Relaxation Training

Supportive Therapy

Motivational Enhancement Therapy

Adulthood Disorders

Substance Abuse

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Substance use disorders occur when the recurrent use of alcohol and/or drugs causes clinically and functionally significant impairment, such as health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home. As people age, their bodies become less capable of tolerating addictive substances and more susceptible to negative effects. Adults may turn to addictive substances when coping with the stresses of child-rearing, balancing a career with family and managing a household. New risks for addiction and substance abuse may emerge for individuals in middle age who face financial pressures, divorce, the empty nest, personal or family illness, the economic and emotional stresses of caring for ageing parents or the death of a parent or other loved one. These substances not only lead to addition but may also contribute to psychiatric problems like mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders and psychosis. Every persons experience with substance use disorder is unique, so our therapist aims to plan treatment that is tailored to individual needs of the client to ensure maxmimum benefit.

Worried that you / your loved one may be suffering from Substance Use Disorder?

Have you ever experienced problems in your life from alcohol/drug use?
Have you ever used more alcohol or drugs than you intended?
Do you get upset when your supply of alcohol or drugs is cut off or used up?
Does it take more alcohol or drugs now to get you high than in the past?
Do you ever justify or rationalize your use of alcohol/drugs?
Do you wish you wouldn’t use alcohol or drugs or felt guilty about it, but do anyway?
Have you ever used alcohol/drugs to the point where someone has disapproved of it?
Do you get irritated when someone wants to discuss your alcohol/drug use?

Treatments, we provide that can help you:

Behaviour Therapy

Supportive therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Counselling

Adolescent Disorders

Internet Addiction

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Internet addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, which does not involve the use of an intoxicating drug and is very similar to pathological gambling. Similar to other addictions, those suffering from Internet addiction use the virtual fantasy world to connect with real people through the Internet, as a substitution for real-life human connection, which they are unable to achieve normally. Internet Addiction Disorder is subdivided into varying categories. The most commonly identified categories of Internet Addiction include gaming, social networking, blogging & online shopping.

Worried that your growing child might be a victim of Internet Addiction?

Does your child play video games on the Internet in excess?
Does your child keep on checking social networking sites repeatedly?
Is the child’s excessive computer use interfering with his/her daily life – friendships, work & school?
Does your teen have feelings of Euphoria while using the internet?
Does your Child show tantrums if not given the cellphone?

Treatments, we provide that can help your child and you:

Family therapy

Behaviour modification

Coping Skills training