Trauma

Trauma

Trauma refers to the body or mind being overwhelmed by traumatic events. Psychological trauma in particular occurs as a result of a distressing event that leads the sufferer to question their beliefs while destroying their assumptions of trust. If you have experienced a traumatic event, you may feel socially disconnected and somewhat numb, leading to feelings of isolation. On top of this, you may find yourself feeling more afraid and vulnerable than before the event.

Symptoms of Trauma

Flashbacks 

Insomnia 

Anxiety 

Stress 

Anger 

Depression 

Loss of self-esteem 

Emotional detachment 

No matter how major or minor your traumatic experience was, you might benefit from professional help from a counselor.

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects children and teens and can continue into adulthood. ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder of children. Children with ADHD may be hyperactive and unable control their impulses. Or they may have trouble paying attention. These behaviors interfere with school and home life.

It’s more common in boys than in girls. It’s usually discovered during the early school years, when a child begins to have problems paying attention. 

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

Brief Psychotic Disorder 

Brief psychotic disorder facts. Brief psychotic disorder is one of the conditions in the group of mental illnesses called the schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Symptoms of brief psychotic disorder can include hallucinations and/or delusions, and they last no longer than a month.

Symptoms

The most obvious ones include:

Hallucinations: Someone might hear voices, see things that aren't there, or feel sensations on their skin even though nothing is touching their body.

Delusions: These are false beliefs that someone refuses to give up, even in the face of facts.

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Bereavement

Bereavement 

Bereavement counselling is a specialised type of counselling that involves supporting individuals who have experienced the loss of a loved one. This counselling helps them work through their grief as well as perhaps learn coping mechanisms to help them when they are on their own. Bereavement counselling is recommended for anyone, of any age, whose loss seems overwhelming or whose life is being adversely affected by their grief.

Symptoms of bereavement

If you are struggling to cope with bereavement and you need grief counselling, you are likely to experience stress related illnesses. It is also likely that you will experience the following symptoms after suffering a bereavement:

1.    Sleep disorders 

2.    Nightmares

3.    Difficulties in breathing

4.    Abdominal pain

5.    Dryness of the mouth

Psychodynamic

Psychodynamic Counselling 

Psycho-dynamic Counselling is one of the major traditions within contemporary psychotherapy. Its aim is to help us achieve insight and understanding around the reasons for our problems, and to translate this insight into a mature capacity to cope with current and future difficulties. Like psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Counselling the aim of psycho dynamic Counselling is to bring the unconscious mind into consciousness - helping individuals to unravel, experience and understand their true, deep-rooted feelings in order to resolve them. It takes the view that our unconscious holds onto painful feelings and memories, which are too difficult for the conscious mind to process. In order to ensure these memories and experiences do not surface, many people will develop defences, such as denial and projections. According to psycho dynamic therapy, these defences will often do more harm than good.    

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Mental Health

Mental Health 

Mental health refers to the way in which we are aware of our own abilities and can cope relatively well with the ups and downs of life. Someone with good emotional well-being is capable of working productively and making a contribution to his or her community.

A range of factors can impact our emotional well-being. These include genetics, prolonged stress, physical illness and traumatic events. Environmental issues such as the economic, political and social climate can also have an impact.

Talking therapies counselling are considered effective forms of mental health support.

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Disability

Disability 

An impairment is classed as a problem in body function or structure. An activity limitation is something that causes difficulties when undertaking a task or action. While participation restriction causes difficulties when undertaking day-to-day tasks.

Disability counselling can provide support to people with disabilities, as well as their partners, family and carers Friends and family may too find it difficult to come to terms with the condition, as well as adapting to a lifestyle that involves new challenges. You may find disability counselling beneficial if you are suddenly classed as disabled as a result of an accident.

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Reactive Attachment disorder

Reactive Attachment disorder

Attachment issues fall on a spectrum, from mild problems that are easily addressed to the most serious form, known as reactive attachment disorder (RAD). Reactive attachment disorder is a condition in which your child is unable to establish healthy attachment with you, their parent or primary caretaker. This can lead to difficulty connecting with others and managing their emotions, resulting in a lack of trust and self-worth, a fear of getting close to anyone, anger, and a need to be in control. A child with an attachment disorder feels unsafe and alone.

A persistent social and emotional disturbance characterized by at least two of the following:

1. Minimal social and emotional responsiveness to others.
2. Limited positive affect.
3. Episodes of unexplained irritability,sadness, or fearfulness that are evident even during nonthreatening interactions with adult caregivers.

The child has experienced a pattern of extremes of insufficient care as evidenced by at least one of the following:

1.Social neglect or deprivation in the form of persistent lack of having basic emotional needs for comfort, stimulation, and affection met by caregiving adults.

2. Repeated changes of primary caregivers that limit opportunities to form stable attachment s(e.g., frequent changes in foster care).


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Insomnia

Insomnia 

Difficulty sleeping (i.e., falling asleep, staying asleep or poor sleep quality.) Insomnia (inability to sleep) is a common symptom that can accompany various types of mental illnesses. Treating insomnia is important because this condition can increase your risk for other health concerns. Getting enough sleep is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Insomnia can affect you mentally and physically. It can make you feel tired, depressed, and irritable. It can also make it hard for you to concentrate or perform tasks during the day. If you have insomnia, you may worry about being able to sleep. Sometimes this can make sleeping harder.

Insomnia Symptoms

People who experience insomnia usually report at least one of these Symptoms:

1. Waking too early in the morning

2. Unrefreshing sleep

3. Trouble falling or staying asleep

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Factitious disorder

Factitious Disorder 

A. Falsification of physical or Psychological signs or Symptoms,or induction of injury or disease, associated with identified deception.

B. The individual Presents himself or herself to others as ill, impaired, or injured.

C. The deceptive behavior is evident even in the absence of obvious eternal rewars.

D. The behavior is not better explained by another mental disorder, such as delusional disorder or another psychotic disorder.

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Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy

1. In Individuals with long-standing disease, brief(seconds to minutes) episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone with maintained consciousness that are precipitated by laughter of joking

Recurrent Periods of an irrepressible need to sleep, lapsing into sleep, or napping occurring within the same day.

2. IN children or in individuals within 6 months of onset, spontaneous grimaces or jaw-opening episodes with tongue thrusting or a global hypotonic, without any obvious emotional triggers.

3. Nocturnal sleep polysomnography showing rapid eye movement (REMP) sleep latency less than or equal to 15 minutes, or a multiple sleep latency test showing a mean sleep latency less than or equal to 8 minutes and two or more sleep-onset REM Periods.

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Dissociative identity disorder

Dissociative identity disorder
1. Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, Which may be described in some cultures as an experience of possession. The disruption in identity involves marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behaviour, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and or sensory motor functioning. These signs and symptoms may be observed by others or reported by the individual.
2.Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
3.The symptoms causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
4.The disturbance is not a normal part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice. 

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Tic Disorder

Tic Disorder 

Tourette's Disorder

A. Both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics have been present at some time during the illness, although not necessarily concurrently.

B. The tics may wax  and wane in frequency but have persisted for more than 1 year since first tic onset.

C. Onset is before age 18 years. 

D. The disturbance is not attributable to the Physiological effects of a substance (e.g., cocaine) or another medical condition (e.g. Huntington's disease, Postviral encephalitis.

Persistent (Chronic) Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder 

A. Single or multiple motor or vocal tics have been present during the illness, but not both motor and vocal.

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Post traumatic stress disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 

A. Exposure  to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in one (or more ) of the following ways:

1. Directly experiencing the traumatic events.

2. Witnessing, in person, the events as it occurred to others.

3. Learning that the traumatic events occurred to a close family member of close friend. In cases of actual or threatened death of a family member or friend, the events must have been violent or accidental.

B. Presence of one or more of the following intrusion symptoms associated with the traumatic events, beginning after the trumatic events occurred:

1. Recurrent, Involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories of the traumatic events 

2. Recurrent distressing dreams in which the content and/ or affect of the dream are related to the traumatic events.

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Does you child have a technology addiction ?

Does your Child have a technology Addiction?

Teenage addiction to technology has dangerous physical and on child’s health and behavior. Kids who spend too much time in Social Media. 

1. Less Physically Activity. 

2. losing interest in another activities- (like doesn't Play outdoor game etc.) 

3. Can't think or talk anything else but technology. 

4. Low concentration, memory and learning problems. 

5.  hiding  gadgets and lying about how much time they spend with them. 

6. Distressed or angry when they can’t play with their device or go online.

7. Not interested in anything else but engaging with technology 

8. Restless Sleep, Sleep disorder etc. 

9    9. Becomes irritable, moody  or depressed when not online.

     10. Disobeys time limits that have been set for internet usage.

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symptoms of paranoid personality disorder

Paranoid personality disorder 

1. Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her.

2. Is preoccupied with justified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates. 

3. Is reluctant to confide in other because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.

4. Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events.

5. persistently bears grudges (i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights).

6. Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.

7. Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.

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Are you facing bipolar disorder ?

7 signs when someone has #bipolar disorder. 


1. feeling overly happy or “high” for long periods of time.

2. having a decreased need for sleep.

3. talking very fast, often with racing thoughts.

4. feeling extremely restless or impulsive.

5. becoming easily distracted.

6. having overconfidence in your abilities.

7. engaging in risky behavior, such as having impulsive sex, gambling with life savings, or going on big spending sprees.

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Are you facing Social Anxiety disorder ?

Social Anxiety disorder ( Social phobia) 

A. Marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Examples include social interactions (e.g., having a conversation, meeting unfamiliar people), being observed (e.g., eating or drinking), and performing in front of others (e.g., giving a speech). 

B. The individual fears that he or she will act in a way or show anxiety symptoms that will be negatively evaluated (i.e., will be humiliating or embarrassing : will lead to rejection or offend others). 

C. The social situations almost always provoke fear or anxiety. 

D. The social situations are avoided or endured with intense fear or anxiety. 

E. The fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual threat posed by the social situation and to the sociocultural context. 

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Are you in separation Anxiety disorder ?

Separation Anxiety Disorder 

=> Recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation from home or from major attachment figures.

=> Persistent and excessive worry about losing major attachment figures or about possible harm  to them, such as illness, injury, disasters,or death. 

=>  Persistent reluctance or refusal to go out, away from home, to school, to work, or elsewhere because of fear of separation.

=> Persistent and excessive fear of or reluctance about being alone or without major attachment figures at home or in other settings.

=> Persistent reluctance or refusal to sleep away from home or to go to sleep without being near a major attachment figure.

=> Repeated nightmares involving the theme of separation.

=> Repeated complaints of physical symptoms (e.g., headaches, stomachaches, nausea, vomiting) when separation from major attachment figures occurs or is anticipated.

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General personality Disorder

GENERAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

A. An enduring pattern of inner experience and  behavior that deviates markedly from the    expectations of the individual's culture.

    

    1. Cognition(i.e., ways of perceiving and interpreting self, other people, and events).

 

   2. Affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, lability, and appropriateness of emotional response).

     

  3. Interpersonal functioning.

  4. Impulse control. 

Diagnostic Features 

 

personality traits are enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts. only when personality traits are inflexible and maladaptive and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute personality disorders. 

Development and Course

The features of a personality disorder usually become recognizable during adolescence or early adult life. By definition, a personality disorder is an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is relatively stable over time. 

Culture-Related Diagnostic Issues

Judgments about personality functioning must take into account the individual,s ethnic, cultural, and social background.

Gender-Related Diagnostic Issues 

Certain personality disorders (e.g., antisocial personality disorder) are diagnosed more frequently in males. others (e.g., borderline, histrionic, and dependent personality disorders are diagnosed more frequently in females.

Differential Diagnosis

Other mental disorders and personality traits. Many of the specific criteria for the personality disorders describe features (e.g., suspiciousness, dependency, insensitivity ) that are also characteristic of episodes of other mental disorders.

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WHAT IS DEPRESSION

DEPRESSION

Five (or more ) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) Depressed mood (2) Loss of interest or pleasure. 

( 1) Depressed mood most of the day nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report (e.g., feels sad, empty, hopeless) or observation made by others (e.g., appears tearful). 

(2) Markedly diminished intereset or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day (as indicated by either subjective account or observation). 

(3) Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain (e.g., a change of more than 5 % of body weight in a month ), or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day. 

(4) Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day.

(5) Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down). 

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