Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and avoidance of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders.
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in mental health, include substance use disorders. Psychiatrists are qualified to assess both the mental and physical aspects of psychological problems.
Psychiatrists use a variety of treatments – including a variety of forms of psychotherapy, medications, psychosocial interventions, and other treatments, depending on the needs of each patient.
Psychotherapy, sometimes called talk therapy, is a treatment that involves a talking relationship between a therapist and patient. It can be used to treat a broad variety of mental disorders and emotional complexity. The goal of psychotherapy is to eliminate or control disabling or troubling symptoms so the patient can function better.
There are many forms of psychotherapy. There are psychotherapies that help patients change behaviors or thought patterns, psychotherapies that help patients explore the effect of past relationships and experiences on present behaviors, and psychotherapies that are tailored to help solve other problems in specific ways.
Psychiatry Conditions
Addiction
Addiction is a physical or psychological need to do, take or use something, to the point where it could be injurious to you. Addictions do not only contain physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol but may include virtually anything, such abstract things as gambling to seemingly harmless products, such as chocolate – in other words, addiction may refer to a substance dependence.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common term for several disorders that reason nervousness, fear, apprehension, and worrying. These disorders affect how we feel and behave and can cause physical symptoms. Mild anxiety is vague and unsettling, while severe anxiety can seriously affect day-to-day living.
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is a mental health situation that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs and lows.
When you become depressed, you may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When your mood shifts to mania or hypomania, you may feel euphoric, full of energy or unusually irritable.
Depression
Sadness, feeling down, having a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities – these are symptoms familiar to all of us. But, if they persist and affect our life substantially, it may be depression. Depression is a general and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel the way you think and how you act.
Eating disorders
Eating disorders can develop during any stage in life but typically appear during the teen years or young adulthood. Classified as a medical illness, appropriate treatment can be highly effectual for many of the specific types of eating disorders.
Insomnia
Insomnia is a type of sleep disorder. Individuals with insomnia find it hard to fall asleep, stay asleep, or both. People with insomnia often don’t feel refreshed when they wake up from sleeping, either. This can lead to fatigue and other symptoms.