Department Of Psychiatry

Overview

The Department of Behavioral Science and mental health of Sahyadri Hospital contains a team of highly experienced professionals working in this field for a long time. They have dealt with almost every case of mental health and neuroscience. We provide an effective de-addiction solution to people dealing with alcohol addiction and other type of substance abuse. In addition, we also take care of the developmental disorders, learning & scholastic difficulties, and emotional condition in children.

Our Department specializes in mental health problems, including mood disorders, depression, anxiety problems, sleep difficulty, cognitive disorders, etc., and suggests treatment accordingly. We focus on psychological well-being, emotional satisfaction and occupational functioning. Apart from this, we also educate our patients about managing relationships, stressful situations and the ability to make decisions for improving effects of their mental health. 

Quick Facts To Read Under Psychiatry

We have a separate mental health and behavioral sciences department that forms an integral part of our health care system. The system helps in the clinical evaluation of different symptoms and finding treatment services for a wide array of behavioral, emotional and cognitive disorders in patients. It is one of the largest mental health department containing clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counseling psychologists, occupational therapists, and special educators. 

We provide solutions to in-patients and successfully create an environment that promotes hope and trust in patients, their families, and the community. 

Mental illness covers a wide range of mental health conditions ranging from depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, addictive nature to eating disorders. Many people get concerned about their mental health condition from time to time. But it turns into mental illness when it starts developing symptoms and signs affecting your functionality. Mental illness is capable of making you miserable, causing problems at home, school and work. So we make sure to treat it before it gets worse through medications and therapy. 

Many healthy people also suffer from an overall change in personality, behavior and mood. They go through different phases from day to day and depending on the circumstances they go through we plan their treatment. The changes can be roughly divided into the following category:

• Confusion or delirium

These mental problems refer to a disturbance in the conscious mind. People suffering from such conditions are often less aware of the environment, feels tired and sluggish. Moreover, they are often less aware of what is happening in their environment, where they are, or what day it is.      

• Hallucination

Hallucination is when people start seeing, hearing, feeling, or tasting things that are actually not there. They perceive things from their senses that are not actualized in the real world. Moreover, in this type of disease, any sense can be involved. Also, they may or may not develop this disease from mental illness. Like some of the cases were a result of neurological disorders. 

• Delusion

Delusions are false beliefs that people hold onto despite they know of the contrary situation. In some cases, delusion is made on a misinterpretation of actual experience. For example, a person thinking someone is following him. While some people think the write-up of the particular song lyric was specifically for him/her. However, some belief is believable and hard to identify as delusion. Like a person thinking his co-workers will sabotage his work which is possible in real life but not completely true. 

• Disorganized speech

Disorganized speech refers to speech that does not have any logical connection between the thoughts. The person may jump from one subject to another without completing any particular subject in full. The subject can also be unrelated or contains just ramblings words coming out of the mouth, and does not make any sense. The answers you get from these patients will often be irrelevant and illogical. However, disorganized does not cover the area of intentional rude, mysterious and humorous behavior. 

• Disorganized behavior

Disorganized behavior includes some unusual things performed by people in public like undressing themselves, shouting, masturbating in public, and swearing for no reason at all. These patients are often unable to behave normally in public. People with this problem may also have problems carrying out their normal daily work like making food, maintaining hygiene, etc.

• Extreme moods

Extreme moods mean the person is not able to control its rage and outburst. It also includes depression, periods of mania, and either little emotion or no emotion at all. 

Generally, people are under a lot of pressure, both physically and mentally. Under pressure, our body and mind start reacting differently. It starts feeling stressed, full of anxiety and depression. As a result of depression, the person starts going down low, deeper and deeper with time. It also affects your appetite, your productivity, activity level and willingness to do exercise.  

Some of the conditions of depression and anxiety may overlap, but they may differ in some symptoms. For example, in anxiety, you feel restlessness, unable to focus, fear all the time, excess sweating, tiredness, insomnia, muscle ache, and appetite change. 

While in depression, the patient feels worthless, full of guilt, constant irritation, back pain, headaches, loss of appetite, suicide, complete isolation, and feeling on edge.

Our highly skilled doctors help this patient by first diagnosing them whether they suffer from anxiety or depression. For that, they will ask questions relating to medical history, situations that trigger the patient and perform some physical examination. 

However, if nothing fruitful comes out of the preliminary result, we will recommend you take the help of a psychologist, psychiatrist, etc., for proper diagnosis. Then depending on your symptoms and condition, our doctors will design an individualized treatment plan for you.  

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