Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment Tips

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental and emotional condition that is characterised by a heavily distorted thought process as well as hallucinations and even extreme fear that borders on paranoia. Let us find out more about this debilitating disease:

- Causes:

Genetics

Genetic factors play an important role in the development of schizophrenia.

Environment

Possible environmental factors include obstetric complications, the mother's exposure to influen...more

Play Therapy uses a psychotherapeutic approach to help children between the age of 3 and 12 to explore their lives and help them express their repressed thoughts, emotions, and feelings through play. Sometimes play therapy is used for adults as well. Therapeutic play typically takes place in a comfortable and safe playroom, where the least amount of rules are forced on the child, the child is encouraged to express him/herself freely, and it allows the therapist to observe a child s decisions, ch...more

As people grow older, they age physically as well as mentally. Just as they become more susceptible to conditions such as arthritis, their risk of mental illnesses also increases. It is also important to note that physical ailments influence mental ailments. Thus, arthritis may not only be a problem in itself but may cause mental disorders as well.

Some of the most common psychological problems that affect the elderly are:

Depression: Depression can affect people of all ages bu...more

Somatic symptom disorder is when you put so much focus on symptoms such as pain or fatigue that you have trouble functioning or experience severe emotional distress. You will be visiting the doctor a lot, completely unnecessarily and will waste a lot of money when you have no major health concerns. However, there are treatments, which can help you cope with this problem. Read further to find out what they are:

Symptoms:

Worrying excessively about an illness, which has not yet o...more

The smartphone revolution has changed our lives in many ways. With several adults and even tech-savvy teenagers and children turning victims of problems like anxiety and depression, doctors are increasingly turning to mental health apps or MHapps. More frequent use of tech gives a better avenue for communication - in this case between doctors and patients.

Here are the top 7 mental health apps that can be used by patients to improve their mental health

1. Code Blue: Bullying is...more

A certain psychiatric condition which causes a person to be functionally impaired in social and occupational settings is known as Impulse Control Disorder. Most of you are granted with the ability to think before you act but it isn't the case for people suffering from such a condition. People diagnosed with this condition are not able to withstand the urge to do something detrimental to themselves or other people.

This condition is similar to other disorders such as kleptomania, compuls...more

Homeopathic treatments are usually considered to be safe and effective for the long-run. But the biggest challenge in this kind of treatment is to forecast its length. Homeopathic treatment depends on multiple factors. A homeopathic doctor takes every aspect of a patient's lifestyle into account during the treatment. Therefore, the treatment takes a long time. It should be allowed to take place at its own speed. It also depends a lot on the participation of the patient.

Factors that Det...more

While the world has always been faced with large-scale tragedies, we have to admit that we now live in a space where these are thrown at us (mostly in the face) without too much control about it. These could terrorist attacks, the stampede at religious places, floods, earthquakes, derailed trains, retained hostages, landslides, etc. The list is growing too long and is only set to increase. Whether we like it or not, each of these events is covered in minute detail and flashed as news and there i...more

Often children are seen as resilient and capable of bouncing back from almost any situation. Traumatic experiences can however lead to long-lasting and severe effects that might stay even in their adult lives if they aren t dealt with. Trauma might result from any such thing that can disrupt their safety and leave them vulnerable. These include verbal, sexual or physical abuse, an unstable environment, domestic violence, separation from parents, bullying, severe illness, or invasive medical proc...more

What is Addiction?

Addiction is a condition in which individual engages in using a substance or seeking a behaviour which leads to rewarding effects in the brain and it reinforce the individual to repeat the using or seeking behaviour again and again. Addiction develops gradually over a period of time and due to the repetition of same pleasure seeking pattern individual become physically and psychologically dependent on the substance or to any other object at the center of addiction.more