Reframes

Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 ❌ Narcoanalysis is a type of hypnotism. ✅ Narcoanalysis is a diagnostic and psychotherapeutic procedure where the subject is taken to a twilight state by drugs mainly barbiturates in which mental elements with strong associated affects come to the surface, where they can be exploited by the therapist. ❌ […]

Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 ❌ If a patient has delusions, schizophrenia can be diagnosed. ✅ Delusions are not an essential criteria in any manuals for diagnosis of schizophrenia but commonly present in schizophrenia. ❌ Schizophrenia has two types of symptoms namely positive and negative symptoms. ✅ This view has been broadened and now […]

Volume 7 Issue 4 April, 2017 ❌ Autism is a behavioural/emotional/mental health disorder. ✅ Autism related disorders are developmental disabilities and neuro-biological disorders. ❌ Autism spectrum disorders are caused by poor parenting or parental behaviour. ✅ Although multiple not-yet-known factors are responsible for autism, parental behaviour before, during or after pregnancy is not known to […]

Volume 7 Issue 3 March, 2017 ❌ Personality disorders are very rare. ✅ Personality disorders with strict criteria applied as per classificatory systems are difficult to diagnose but in routine clinical practice, personality disorders are much more common than it is estimated and mixed traits are most common than pure forms of named disorders. ❌ […]

Volume 7 Issue 2 February, 2017 ❌ Grief reaction is a mental illness. ✅ Grief reaction is a normal response after loss of someone/thing valuable. However abnormal grief is coded at various sections in various classificatory systems namely Z63.4 in ICD-10 as uncomplicated bereavement, F 43.2 under adjustment disorders and more recently in DSM-5 under […]

Volume 7 Issue 1 January, 2017 ❌ Psychiatrists treat patients by counseling. ✅ If a common man has this myth, it is understood but when a fellow doctor carries this, it needs to be corrected!Psychiatrists are also specialized medical professionals who have sophisticated pharmacology knowledge and experience using medication, and most often treat mental illnesses […]

Volume 6 Issue 12 December, 2016 ❌Patients fake their symptoms in conversion disorder ✅Symptoms are genuine in conversion disorder and occur through unconscious mechanisms. Patients cannot voluntarily control it or fake symptoms like in malingering which is done with a conscious motive. ❌Conversion disorder occurs only in females ✅Though it is much more common in […]

Volume 6 Issue 11 November, 2016 ❌Tobacco use is just a common habit which most of the people have now a days ✅Tobacco use in varying severity is classified as addictive disorder in International classification of Diseases under Mental & Behavioral Disorders (category F). ❌Tobacco is not as addictive as ‘drugs’ like cocaine and heroin […]

Volume 6 Issue 10 October, 2016 ❌Mentally retarded children have no or less feelings and emotions. ✅Mentally retarded children have the same range of feelings and emotions as others. ❌Cerebral Palsy means brain damage, therefore the children is mentally retarded. ✅In some children the damage can extend to the intellectual part of the brain. In […]

Volume 6 Issue 9 September, 2016 ❌Mental Illnesses are the cause for suicide ✅Though mental illnesses are a major factor for suicide, it is not always associated with mental illness nor is suicide a mental illness by itself. ❌If a person often threatens to commit suicide for trivial problems, it can be safely ignored ✅Any […]