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Schizophrenia
It is a chronic and disabling severe mental disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality & relates to others. Its symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, abnormal speech, thoughts and abnormal behaviour, loss of motivation, poor-self-hygiene, disturbances in sleep, eating habits and others.
Bipolar Disorder
It is associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs. Mania episodes may include symptoms such as high energy, reduced need for sleep and loss of touch with reality. Depressive episodes may include symptoms such as sadness of mood, low energy, low motivation, intense negative thoughts and loss of interest in daily activities. Mood episodes could last days to months at a time and may also be associated with suicidal thoughts.
Depression
is characterized with persistent sad mood, loss of interest in previously pleasurable hobbies or interests, lack of energy despite minimal or no physical work. It significantly impairs sleep, appetite, sexual functions, motivation, confidence, concentration thereby reducing quality of life. In severe cases, there might be a total neglect of self, poor food intake, hopeless and worthless ideas and suicidal / self-harming ideas or attempts.
Anxiety Disorder
is characterised by excessive irrational worry or fear. Symptoms may appear as frequent anxiety attacks (panic attacks), generalised anxiety or fear, specific fear (phobia), anxiety or fear after a particular traumatic event (post-traumatic stress). Other symptoms are sweating, muscle aches and pains, tension headaches, difficulty breathing or choking sensation, goose-bumps, broken sleep and others.
Addiction
is a complex brain condition characterised by compulsive drug abuse despite its harmful consequences. A person may become addicted to various drugs like Alcohol, Cannabis, Weed, Charas / Hash, Opioids like Afeem, doda, post, bhukki, chitta, smack, heroin, iv heroin / smack / avil, sleeping pills like Nitrazepam (No.10 / Nitro), alprax, zolfresh, Cocaine, LSD, Ecstasy, Solution and others. Drug addiction may lead adverse and severe consequences in terms of physical health, mental health, financial, professional, familial and legal ways.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
is a chronic condition characterised by obsessions- recurrent thoughts, ideas, images, impulses which occur in a repetitive manner. Compulsions are those acts which are done by patients repetitively by a patient to relieve anxiety and distress by obsessions.
Examples are feeling of contaminations and repetitive hand washing, repetitive doubts and checking behaviour, need for symmetry and excessive slowness in work, repetitive urge to harm someone, repetitive sexual thoughts and impulses etc.
Stressful Life Events
have a great adverse impacts on mental health. For example: death of a loved one, business loss, exam failure, unemployment, relationship break-ups, marital discordance, divorce, childbirth, major accident, medical illness and other such events. Patients with poor coping-skills may develop symptoms of insomnia, anxiety, depression and may resort to drug abuse, self-harming behaviour and psychosis in severe cases.
Psycho-Sexual Disorders
Psycho-Sexual Disorders or sexual dysfunction may be the consequence of mental health issues, leading to dissatisfactory marital life and relationships. Males may face problems like erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculations, inability to experience orgasms, hyper / hypo-sexual desire and others. Females could face problems such as painful sexual intercourse, vaginismus, hyper / hypo sexual desire, sexual aversion and similar issues.
Geriatric Mental health issues
is commonly found in old age are forgetfulness, depression, anxiety, irritable behaviour, talking irrelevantly, suspiciousness, poor touch to the surroundings, confused behaviour, poor self-care, neglect of food / toilet habits and others. Care-givers of old age patients face a huge challenge in their day to day life and face emotional exhaustion and burn-out.
Borderline Personality Disorder
is a type of personality disorder which affects the way one thinks and feel about themselves and others & it is characterized by symptoms like emotional instability, anger-outbursts and impulsivity, intense mood-swings, fear of abandonment, poor threshold to criticism, unstable relationships, frequent self-harming behaviour.
Headaches
are a chronic and recurrent health issue characterized by pain in any part of the head, scalp, face or neck. There are various types of headaches like tension headache, migraine, cluster headache, sinus headaches. Headaches, if untreated, may impair daily life and its functioning.
Epilepsy
is a chronic, recurrent brain disorder characterized by frequent episodes of abnormal body movements (either a body part or whole body), sudden unusual behaviour, loss of consciousness or inability to remember the seizure episodes. There may also be associated behavioural changes that occur before, during or after seizure.
Child & Adolescent Mental Health issues
Children and adolescents often face mental health issues, however they may find it difficult to express.
Parents may observe symptoms in their children but may not be aware of it. Children usually show symptoms like irritable mood, hyperactivity (at school and home), difficulties in being attentive in studies, learning difficulties in reading, writing, calculations, spelling, or peculiar repetitive behaviours (Hand clapping, head-banging, repeating words or actions of others), poor social interaction with others, not responding when called by parents, child showing lack of age appropriate development skills, clinging to parents, bed-wetting at night, school-refusal and other related issues.