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  • Depression is a common mental illness. It affects our ability to feel pleasure or take interest in activities in our daily lives. Depression is a treatable mental illness. A person may be depressed if they have felt sad, down or miserable most of the time, or lost interest in most of their usual activities for more than two weeks. Depression is not a sign of weakness.

  • Signs and Symptoms
    Low mood or irritable and pervasive mood
    Loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities
    Change in appetite leading to weight loss or gain
    Having trouble with sleep (getting to sleep and/or staying asleep)
    Feeling tired most of the time or lacking energy or motivation
    Difficulty concentrating or making decisions
    Feeling irritable and grumpy
    Having pessimistic views of the future
    Feeling worthless, helpless and hopeless or even guilty most of the time
    Feelings of loneliness
    Having thoughts of death
    Crying spells
    Memory loss
    Loss of motivation

  • Eating disorders are a mental health condition that are defined by abnormal eating habits that can negatively affect a person’s physical or mental health. These might be also associated with anxiety, depressive and substance abuse disorders in addition to existing on their own.

  • Signs and Symptoms
    Eating large amounts of food in short periods of time
    Eating very little and thus having low body weight
    Eating a lot and then rid themselves of the food either by vomiting or through excretion
    Eating non-food items
    Regurgitating food
    Lack of interest in food
    Symptoms of anxiety, depression or the use of substance are also at times common in these disorders
    Weakness
    Deficiency of vitamins and minerals symptoms
    Dental issues
    Sensitivity to temperature changes
    Reduction in libido
    Gastro-intestinal issues
    Body image issues

  • Treating Eating Disorders
    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and/or Cognitive Emotional Behaviour Therapy
    Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
    Family Therapy
    Behavioural Therapy
    Interpersonal Psychotherapy
    Arts based therapy
    Medication
    Self-help and support groups
    Psychoanalysis

  • PTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by stressful, frightening and distressing situations. Someone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares, flashbacks along with other symptoms of hyperarousal, anxiety and avoidance. The symptoms may persist long after the traumatic event and can be severe enough to have an effect on the person’s everyday life.

  • What causes PTSD?? An event where you are seriously injured and fear for your life:
    Car accidents
    Physical assault
    Traumatic Childbirth
    Abuse, neglect and Bullying

  • Signs & Symptoms
    Re-experiencing
    Flashbacks
    Intrusive thoughts or images
    Nightmares- distress in thinking about the trauma
    Physical memories such as pain, trembling, sweating
    Hyperarousal
    Constantly aware of threats
    Easily startled
    Irritable
    Easily upset or angry
    Difficulty sleeping and concentrating
    Avoidance
    Memory problems
    Keeping busy
    Avoiding trauma
    Dissociation
    Isolation and withdrawal
    Using Alcohol and drugs
    Being unable to trust anyone
    Depression and Anxiety
    Headache, dizziness, stomach aches

  • TREATMENT
    Yoga
    Cognitive Behavior Therapy
    Grounding exercises
    Antidepressants (if severe PTSD persists)

  • Sleep Disorders is a condition where the sleep patterns of a person are disturbed. These can get serious enough to hamper with normal physical, mental, social and emotional functioning.

  • Signs and Symptoms
    Grinding and clenching of teeth
    Night terrors, sleep walking, involuntary movement of limbs
    Difficulty falling/staying asleep with no obvious cause for disturbance
    Difficulty in falling asleep
    Difficulty in staying constantly asleep/in the REM cycle of sleep through the night.
    Wakeful sleep
    Waking up earlier than necessary and being unable to go back to sleep
    Stops in breathing process while asleep, sleep apnea, snoring
    Excessive sleepiness during the day where one falls asleep spontaneously but unwillingly
    Sudden and temporary loss of muscle tone while asleep
    Bed wetting and/or frequent need to get up and urinate through at night
    Acting out violent or traumatic dreams while being asleep
    Temporary paralysis before or after sleep; can include hallucinatory symptoms
    Fear of falling asleep which have features of anxiety and panic attacks

  • Treating Sleep Disorders
    Behavioural and psychotherapeutic treatment
    Rehabilitation and management
    Medication
    Other somatic treatments

  • Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental disorder, in which the person suffering experiences unusual and extreme shifts in mood and energy levels.

  • Signs
    People with bipolar disorder experience high energy levels and emotional highs(mania) which alternates with feelings of sadness and dullness(depression).
    In mania the person may experience
    • Grandiosity
    • Elevated mood.
    • Very high self-esteem.
    • Become more active than usual.
    • Less need for sleep.
    • Becoming more impulsive.
    In depressive periods the person may experience
    • Loss of energy.
    • Feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness.
    • Sadness
    • Thoughts of suicide.
    • Changes in appetite.
    • Becoming more impulsive.
  • These two extreme poles of highs(mania) and lows(depression) are found in one person; thus the name – bipolar disorder

  • Treatment for bipolar disorder
    Treatment includes medication after consulting a psychiatrist and psychological counselling
    The therapies used in psychological counselling include
    Behavioral therapy
    Interpersonal therapy
    Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
    Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

  • Anxiety comes in many forms and types but may be as a result of past experiences or sometimes because of one's state of mind and one's brain chemistry. It frequently presents in early adulthood between the ages of 15 and 25 in response to extraordinary stressors or stressful environments.

  • Anxiety is a sensation of massive stress and panic and can be caused by many circumstances. Symptoms include:
    Rapid shallow breathing
    Increased heart rate
    Extreme stress
    Fatigue
    Irritability
    Changes in sleep patterns
    Changes in eating habits
    Difficulty concentrating
    Uncontrollable thoughts

  • While anxiety is a complex disorder, there are many possible ways to address the symptoms and causes of it.
    Counseling or talk therapy with a trained counselor or psychologist helps to make changes to one’s thinking and perspective that can help one cope better as well as to understand themselves better and take on stressors more in line with their capabilities.
    Medications can help manage the symptoms and help a person lead a happy, healthy and functional life.
    Lifestyle changes and improvements in one’s health habits (changes to eating, sleeping and self care) can also improve one’s state of mind and reduce anxiety and increase resilience and coping skills as well.
  • Anxiety is nothing to be ashamed of. Anyone suffering from it is not a danger to others. It is simply a disease like many others. If you, a friend or a family member is in need of assistance, please seek professional help.

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