Reframes

Volume 8 Issue 4 April, 2018 ❌ Psychiatrist only talks! What is this treatment?! ✅ Psychiatrists “Listens” and offers advice on how to cope with issues faced by the patient ❌ Psychiatrist will force medications on you ✅ Management plans are almost always would be discussed with patients or relatives depending on insight ❌ Consulting […]

Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 ❌ Medicines can cure Mental retardation (MR) ✅ Medicines can only intervene behavioral manifestation of MR and not cure ❌ Cognition and Intelligence signify or mean the same ✅ Both are different and can’t be used interchangeably ❌ IQ means chronological age/mental age (CA/MA100)  It is MA/CA100 ✅ […]

Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 ❌ Person with developmental disability cannot learn ✅ They constantly learn although at a slower rate ❌ Those with developmental disability are not employable ✅ They can perform wide variety of jobs/tasks when given a chance ❌ Developmental disability is a contagious disease ✅ It is not, it is […]

Volume 8 Issue 1 January, 2018 ❌ Disabilities are always physical and visible ✅ Disabilities are of many types like psychiatric illness and many are invisible ❌ Individuals with learning disability are not intelligent ✅ Majority have average or above average intelligence ❌ Wheelchairs are only for paraplegics ✅ Mobility aids are used for wide […]

Volume 7 Issue 12 December, 2017 ❌ Lack of concentration is psychiatric disease ✅ No, It is one of the symptom of many underlying medical conditions ❌ Lack of concentration is due to low IQ ✅ It’s not always due to low IQ as it can occur in many underlying psychiatric and medical conditions ❌ […]

Volume 7 Issue 11 November, 2017 ❌ All addicted to substances are bad people. ✅ No, some behaviour under the influence of substances can create such impression in some people with addiction. ❌ Once a smoker/alcoholic is always a smoker/alcoholic. ✅ Different types proven treatment available to quit smoking and drinking though difficult to treat. […]

Volume 7 Issue 10 October, 2017 ❌ Mental health issue are rare in medical students ✅ Mental health issue are more in medical students compared to other fields ❌ Seeking help for emotional issue is a sign of weakness ✅ Actually its sign of strength and also right thing to do for your health ❌ […]

Volume 7 Issue 9 September, 2017 ❌ Dementia is a normal part of ageing. ✅ It is a disease and not a normal part of ageing ❌ There is nothing which you can do if you have it. ✅ There is no cure however there is treatment to decrease the progression. ❌ If someone in […]

Volume 8 Issue 8 August, 2017 ❌ Anger is not good ✅ It’s not bad to feel angry. Anger is a normal, healthy emotion ❌ Men are angrier than women ✅ Research consistently shows that men and women experience the same amount of anger. They just express it differently ❌ Person with no anger is […]

Volume 7 Issue 7 July, 2017 ❌ Child will outgrow Bedwetting (Nocturnal Enueresis) ✅ Child needs counselling, safe and effective treatment to overcome ❌ Bed wetting is due to strict parenting ✅ It is due to lack of in time toilet training ❌ Child with bed wetting will have physical problems ✅ Only few percent […]