My Psychiatry Posting Reflection: Two Weeks That Changed My View
I completed my psychiatry intern posting for a duration of two weeks. Before starting this posting, I had many misconceptions about psychiatry as a subject and about psychiatric hospitals. Like many people, I believed that psychiatric wards are frightening places, patients are violent, and treatments are harsh. I had also heard many negative things about […]
Udta Punjab: Movie Review
Udta Punjab (2016) is a Hindi film that explores the severe drug abuse problem in Punjab and its deep psychological, social, and psychiatric consequences. From a psychiatric perspective, the movie is a strong depiction of substance use disorders, their risk factors, manifestations, and impact on individuals and society. The character Tommy Singh, a popular rock […]
Inpatient Ward Experience of Resident: First Impression
It has been exactly two weeks since I began my journey as a first-year Psychiatry postgraduate resident at a teaching hospital, and I would like to reflect on my experiences in the psychiatric wards so far. I vividly remember my first day of ward rounds with my senior postgraduates, when I encountered a patient who […]
Growing Up Online: Psychological Implications of Family Vlogging
Family vlogging documents and monetises a child’s everyday life in front of a continuous audience. For the first time, children are not only raised within families but also within public view, hence fundamentally altering how attachment, identity and autonomy develop. In early childhood, development depends on private, attuned caregiver interaction. When a parent becomes both caregiver […]
A Psychiatrist’s Reflection
Some patients stay in our minds long after the clinic door closes. Years pass, hundreds of files move across the desk, yet a few stories refuse to fade. This is the story of one such young man. It was during my initial years as an Assistant Professor at GMC Bhopal. In the busy OPD came […]
What’s in a name?
Shakespeare worked his way through my mind as I pondered over the question that my student had posed to me. “What difference does it make if I call my patient a schizophrenic or a person with Schizophrenia? Aren’t they both the same?” I knew the answer, but this time the question gnawed its way to […]
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Psychiatry Residency: My First Steps by Dr. Ishani Vimal
It has been exactly fourteen days since I joined as a psychiatry postgraduate resident, and looking back, the experience has already started to reshape my perspective on psychiatry. Coming into a clinical setting after an internship was a bit overwhelming, and I’ll admit I am still very much in the adjusting phase. However, the transition […]
To Reverse a Tragic End: Aashiqui 2 by Dr. Nikita Maan
The movie Aashiqui 2 portrays the main character Rahul Jaykar, who was struggling with severe alcohol dependence, which led to a severe negative impact on his health, career and on his relationship. As time passes, his career falls apart, and his loving person (Girlfriend) Aarohi’s career rises. This leads him to clinical depression. Aarohi tries […]