Mental health professionals and staff thrive across the globe. Psychiatric counselling has helped patients a great deal in coming out of depressions, rectifying personality disorders, correcting insomnia etc. Aids Phobia is common among a large number of people. Possessing little or lack of knowledge about HIV, and misinformed about Aids, people panic and suffer from mental and physical aspects. There are many such psychic disorders and phobias, schizophrenic cases, nervous disorders that require the expertise of a psychiatrist to deal with these.

Anorexia is a very common psychological disorder and more so in today’s young girls. Anorexia is a mental disorder where a person stops eating or eats less for fear of getting fat. Eventually such habit leads to a loss of appetite. The concept of hour glass figure is a growing trend among today’s young girls and it has had disastrous effects on the body and mind. Anorexia nervosa is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among young women. 1% of all teenage girls suffer from the condition, while for boys it is 0.1%. The disease has physical side effects like infertility among women.

Like Anorexia, other common mental disorders include hallucination, depression, headache, fatigue, anxiety, confusion, erratic behaviour, hearing voices, and weight loss.

Psychiatry deals with what’s inside the head. And what’s inside the head is a result of some chemical imbalance which did not happen one fine day. The way people think, their beliefs, their culture and the experience, situations in life and a lot of other things tend to shape up their psyche, their thought pattern which might at moments or for a long time be seriously challenged due to circumstances. A psychiatrist through mental counselling and dosage of medicine try to revive the balance in the mind. The function of psychiatric treatment is to open the closed mind of the patient. The closed mindedness is what harms the patient who then undergoes tremendous depression, leading to symptoms of regular psychological disorder.

Schizophrenia is another common serious psychotic disorder and a consistent challenge in the field of psychiatry from a long time. It is an abnormal perception of reality that affects all five senses- sight, touch, smell, hearing, and touch. Hallucinations, bizarre delusions, abnormality in speech and disorganized thinking pattern, multiple and split personality traits, paranoia are common behavioral patterns among schizophrenic patients. People with schizophrenia usually suffer from major depression and anxiety disorders. Substance abuse including hard drugs remains a common problem. Social problems, such as unemployment, poverty and homelessness, are common. The average life expectancy of people with schizophrenia is about 10 years less than those without. One major reason behind this is the high suicidal rate among schizophrenics. Although not hereditary, Schizophrenia tends to run in families.

Delusion is another very common psychological disorder. People can have various degrees of delusions. In such cases, the patient holds on to his own idea about something even if it is wrong. The person might become so disillusioned, that he would not budge from his viewpoint even if presented with the correct facts. A person might believe that some conspiracy is going on behind his back. This might happen in workplace or at home. This leads to unrest, abnormal behavior, and rash reactions if the degree of delusion becomes high. Sometimes the patient’s beliefs get out of proportion and he might think of himself as Napoleon or Hitler or anyone else. Such short and long term delusions are common case studies in psychiatry.

Visual and/or auditory hallucinations must have had happened to everyone but the difference between normal and abnormal lies in the frequency of such hallucinations. People see things that are not there, or hear a voice as if someone called them. For people suffering from hallucinations, it happens often. Drug abuse is one reason for hallucination, where the treatment of drug abuse is more important than dealing with hallucination. For those hallucinating to a great extent without the help of any psychotic substance, psychological counselling and mild steroids and prescribed medicines work wonders.

The Department of Psychiatry in Vydehi Hospital provides exemplary clinical care, consultation services and treatment, both to inpatients and outpatients, along with crisis and emergency services. The department is devoted to the optimal recovery of patients suffering from psychiatric problems. The department has state of the art equipments for various therapies namely Biofeedback Therapy Relaxation therapy, Multi Behaviour therapy, Brain Polariser Sex Therapy, Aversion Therapy, Electro-Sleep Therapy, Electro-convulsive therapy. A different department deals with psychological issues and cases. The psychiatric services empower individuals to change their lives in a positive manner.

About The Author

Article written by Ranadwip Saha , working for Vydehi Medical College Bangalore.Who use to write blogs and articles in web.

Stuttering – A Mysterious Speech Impediment

The net result is that the past decade has seen a drastic increase of the success rate in treating even severe cases of childhood and adult stuttering – a mysterious speech impediment that for so long has baffled experts. For instance why is it that a child with a serious stuttering condition who struggles with simple sentences can sing or often recite poetry flawlessly?

Far More Effective Treatments For Stutterers

So while the Internet has allowed speech therapy experts who in years past would have worked alone in their offices to work in collusion. It has at the same time enabled the parents of children who stutter to become more aware of their discoveries. Discoveries that have led to far more effective treatments for children and adults who stutter.

Far More Tools and Methods For Todays Speech Therapist

So now todays speech therapist has far more tools and information at their disposal that can be implemented individually or in groups, depending on each individuals needs and success rate. This means that speech therapists who in the past may have relied on as little as one known treatment method can now combine several together to tailor fit each stutterer with a far more effective treatment regimen.

Newer Effective Treatment Therapy Methods

One very effective course of treatment for stuttering involves the removal of problem words from a child’s vocabulary. As these problem words that are causing the stuttering are being removed, alternative words will be taught to the child. At the same time a treatment method known a colorful semantics is often implemented that basically teaches a child new colorful and descriptive words to use in problem areas of their speech.

Addressing The Physical and Psychological Causes of Stuttering

In some children the positive effect is two-fold. That is that while the stuttering problem is being addressed and eliminated a new confidence in their broadening vocabulary is being instilled in the child. Treatment combinations like these address not only the physical issues that contribute to stuttering but the psychological and speech confidence issues as well.

Slow Motion Speech Therapy Techniques

Of course speech therapy treatment for stuttering children is not new. In fact there are long used and well proven effective therapy techniques that work well on some children. One of the most common involves simply working with a child to speak in slow motion during therapy sessions. In this way, problem areas can be worked through and a child can be allowed a chance to slowly and methodically work on speech articulation.

New Effective Treatment Techniques

The most common speech impediment that will bring a young child into a speech therapists office is stuttering. The reason for this is simple and that is that stuttering is the most commonly heard speech problem in children. Still one more factor that is motivating more parents to bring their child in for speech therapy, is new positive developments in the treatment of stuttering.

More Is Known Today About Stuttering

This is because more is known today about stuttering and its treatment then ever before. What this means is the depending on each persons individual case, treatments for stuttering are also delivering faster results. Remember that stuttering often simply goes away as a child ages but often times it can develop into a life long adult condition.

Speech Impediments and Social Development

Human developmental experts are all in agreement that the personality that a person will carry with them their entire adult life is for the most part developed while they are a child. What this means is that by delaying speech therapy treatment for stuttering or any other speech impediment for that matter can have far reaching effects on an individual. Low self esteem and problems with socializing with peers are just two of the long term problems that can arise from stuttering.

Common Speech Therapy Treatments

There are several common speech therapy treatments for stutterers and they can be used individually or in any number of combinations. The age of the person being treated, the severity of the speech condition and the level of response to any individual treatment method or technique all can be and often are determinate factors in tailoring a course of therapy.

One Common Speech Therapy Technique

One of the most common speech therapy treatment techniques involves working with a patient to eliminate or minimize areas of their vocabulary where problems occur. That is that replacements or alternatives for certain words that may be giving a stuttering child or adult problems will be inserted into their vocabulary, thus eliminating the problem. Further along, as the child improves, the child can then begin to “re-use” those words that were eliminated.

Another Common Speech Therapy Treatment Method

Another common speech therapy technique for children and adults with stuttering issues involves methodically slowing down their speech during therapy sessions. Through this type of slow motion speech therapy, problem areas can be more effectively addressed. After progress has been made, just like a student driver in a drivers training course, the child will be allowed to gradually increase their speech speed until they can talk through problem areas unimpeded.