What is the main treatment for schizophrenia? The mainstay treatment of schizophrenia is long term antipsychotic medications. This is given by either tablets or injections. Your psychiatrist may prescribe other medications including anti-depressants or mood stabilizers if required to control other mood related symptoms if any. Lifestyle management with optimal diet, relaxation and exercise…
DetailsMore and more people are working remotely from home. This is getting to be the norm given that the world is changing in recent times. Remote working is not necessarily a bad thing ! It has it’s own advantages and disadvantages too . People working from home should keep a few things in mind so…
DetailsStart to practice being mindful of your day-to-day emotions and where you feel them in your body. Give names to these emotions. Reflect if one emotion feels in the head, whereas the other emotion feels in the chest and so forth. Reflect how you process unhelpful emotions. You can imagine them passing over your mind…
DetailsMajority of our lives are moving online and people who work remotely may be subjected to stress and harassment, one of it being internet trolling. Let us see what it is and how we can protect ourselves. Youngsters especially are now worryingly spending a lot of time on forums, chat rooms and online community discussions.…
DetailsWhat is stress? Anything that increases our stress hormones is stress. A tiger in real life is a very stressful situation and our bodies prepare us with a burst of energy to either fight it or to run away. With the threats are internal or cannot be modified, it makes sense to learn to deal…
DetailsHow is schizophrenia diagnosed? There is no lab test to confirm for sure the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Diagnosis is done by clinical evaluation of psychiatrists in detail. When one suffers from symptoms such as fixed false beliefs (delusions), hearing voices (hallucinations), disordered thinking, changes to emotions, behaviour and getting more isolated etc. If these symptoms…
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