A Digital Newsletter of Psychiatry for Medical Doctors
Volume 13 Issues 6 June, 2023 As the awareness towards psychiatric disorders is increasing so does the medical fraternities’ efforts to transcend boundaries and advance treatment strategies in these area have expanded and yet all these efforts are just the tip of the iceberg. We, at psychiatry, should firmly believe and represent the notion of […]
Volume 13 Issues 6 June, 2023 As a newly joined junior resident, we had a class by our Head of Department, Prof Rajat Ray. The class was about introduction to Psychiatry as a specialty and what to expect in the course of time. One of the things he taught us then was that you would […]
Volume 13 Issues 6 June, 2023 Introduction: George Orwell (1) published the Animal Farm in 1945 under the auspices of Secker and Warburg, London, titled “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”. It is an admirable piece of satire encompassing several themes, chiefly revolution, corruption, and totalitarian ruling. Orwell proved his mettle with a group of talking […]
Volume 13 Issues 6 June, 2023 Schizophrenia is one of the most important psychiatric conditions prevailing in the modern world. A disease that often bring to mind a myriad of symptoms, often dramatic and sensational. It’s difficult not to, when a key hallmark of the disease is hallucination. Hallucination: Seeing the music and hearing the […]
Volume 13 Issues 6 June, 2023 She saw a lifetime’s worth of final moments, yet she was never scared of the reaper’s omens. She fought valiantly day and night, only to unexpectedly meet his scythe. Killed because she was failed, because her trust was betrayed, a mistake costing a thousand lives she’d save, all because […]
Volume 13 Issues 5 May, 2023 Postgraduate psychiatry training always remains a topic of discussion among academicians and educationalists. In due course of the transition from mental hospitals (better known as Institutes of Mental Health) to general hospitals and the establishment of general hospital psychiatry units (GHPUs), psychiatry training adopted various models and structures to […]
Volume 13 Issues 5 May, 2023 Schizophrenia, derived from the words schizein (to split) and phren (mind), is a mental disorder in which a person cannot differentiate between reality and his imagination. With a worldwide occurrence of 0.32%, schizophrenia might not be the most common mental illness but has been widely featured in art, music, […]
Volume 13 Issues 5 May, 2023 Buildings were getting twisted, the cat was getting bigger, and the door didn’t stop shrinking. The chairs and tables floated for no reason, and the talking coffee cup made no sense at all. The girl across the room who seemed sweet a minute ago was about to devour me […]
Volume 13 Issues 5 May, 2023 Blech. “Why’s the rice uncooked? … STOP WRITING IN THAT WRETCHED DIARY AND TALK TO ME”. “You look very pale, dear. Have you been taking your meds? Yes, the ones that say Olanzapine, Amisulpride, and Quetiapine.” “WHY ARE THERE MAGGOTS ON MY PLATE”. “please talk to me, honey; I […]
Volume 13 Issues 5 May, 2023 It was my own inner turmoil and terror of examinations, which started rather suddenly, when I was in the middle of writing my Matriculation examination, which made me turn to psychiatry for an explanation. Although I passed Matric and PUC exams with good marks and got admission to Mysore […]