Many believe that psychiatry is not real; it's a pseudoscience, trash,
and a make belief science, it's all about hypnotism etc. However,
psychiatry is a medical science of a different order that deals with the
mind and its intrinsic and complicated nature. Many mental disorders or
illness often having an effect on the mind as well as the body can be
treated by a psychiatrist. Insomnia, anxiety disorder, panic disorder,
abnormally high pressure moods, various personality disorders etc are
some of the common cases under psychiatry.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.