Psychiatric And Behavioral Disorders - An Overview

Good Morning! I’m Dr. Asif Iqbal Ahmed, MD Psychiatry from Armed Forces Medical College. I served as a psychiatrist for 25 years in the Indian Navy in the army medical corp. After retirement, I set up psycare a comprehensive mental health facility. Psycare is care and cure center for mental and behavioral disorders.

Unfortunately, mental illnesses are not understood as such. It is not understood that these are Biopsychosocial medical illnesses. There’s a biological component based in the brain. Psychological and social factors cause these illnesses to be precipitated. They can eminently be treated with the combination of psychotherapy which in layman’s term is known as counseling and medication if required.

Now in Psycare, we have a team which provides these services. The focus is on total recovery by providing the best possible care and the mortality which is most appropriate. If they are treatable why is it said the Indian council of the medical research report of 2016 says that nearly 90% of people go untreated. Actually the reason, the chief reason for this is a social stigma. Unfortunately, as I said earlier, they are not understood as illnesses. Most of the people take is resulting from neither character flaws, evil spirits. These persons are considered as mental or as mad which is very unfortunate, hence people do not seek even the available resources which are rare.

There is a huge shortage of mental health care facilities. You would have heard of escorts for cardiology, IRPS for liver diseases but other than few eminent institutions like Nimhans of Banglore, IHBAS shahadra of Dehli. Have you heard of a mental health care organization or institution? The other reason for not receiving treatment is the acute shortage of mental health professors. It’s said, it’s estimated that India needs something like 1lac psychiatrists whereas we’re only 6thousand and hence people go untreated. I’m happy to inform you that psycare has made an impact.

We are the first facility in a long time to have received the state mental health authority license of earning a mental health care facility which earlier to be known as rehab centers. We’re the psychiatric nursing home. Our medical practices have been accredited where the national board of accreditation quality counsel of India. I’m happy to inform you that recently in the last month, we have received the international recognition that European medical association has accepted as a reliable health care providers and awarded us with the best medical practice in the European medical association London. The services that we provide are outpatient and inpatient facility. The inpatient facilities are wards which are separate for dealing with male patients as well as female patients.

We also run community outreach programs where we reach to the schools conduct awareness programs about things like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, bullying, internet addiction and the like. We also run corporate wellness programs wherein we teach employees about stress management and higher management is also made aware of human resource issues which can impact mental health. The illnesses that we deal with range from schizophrenia, mania, depression, anxiety disorder like obsessive-compulsive order, adjustment disorder, addictive disorder are a major scourge of the society now. They are known as dependence and dependence can be two substances like alcohol, cocaine these days increasingly weed and cannabis and you can have behavioral addiction like net addiction, gambling and the like. So, those patients who are treated in outpatient are treated with medication and counseling and the patient who need to be admitted have rehabilitative services which help them run their lives 24 hours 24/7 so that they can need a healthy life outside.

In case you have a concern or query you can always consult Psychiatrist in Delhi & get answers to your questions!