Reframes

Volume 4 Issue 3 March, 2014 ❌ Psychiatric disorders in childhood result from bad parenting. ✅ Bad parenting can influence, but most disorders have biological basis. ❌ Therapy is a waste of time in children. ✅ There is best evidence for therapies in childhood disorder. ❌ Children with dyslexia cannot learn to read. ✅ Dyslexic […]

Volume 4 Issue 2 February, 2014 ❌ Morphine is the most potent and most commonly abused opioid ✅ Heroin in the most potent and also the most commonly abused opioid ❌ Person develops severe opioid withdrawal even when used once ✅ Person does not develop withdrawal unless used for long time ❌ Opioids when used […]

Volume 4 Issue 1 January, 2014 ❌ Social anxiety is just like Shyness. ✅ Social anxiety is more pervasive than and more distressing than shyness. ❌ Social anxiety is a very rare disorder. ✅ Social anxiety is experienced by most at some point of time. ❌ There is nothing like social anxiety, people are faking… […]

Volume 3 Issue 12 December, 2013 ❌ Stammering is communicable from one person to another. ✅ Stammering is not communicable, but there are various causes for stammering. ❌ People who stammer are intellectually low. ✅ There is no such link between stammering and intelligence. ❌ Stress causes stammering. ✅ Stress itself is not the cause […]

Volume 3 Issue 11 November, 2013 ❌ If a patient is suffering from anxiety disorder, it is important to avoid stress and situations that make him feel“stressed.”. ✅ Avoiding anxiety tends to reinforce it. It is better to face it than to avoid it. ❌ Panic attacks are caused by the curse of demons or […]

Volume 3 Issue 10 October, 2013 ❌ Persons who are possessed are aware of the things happening in the surroundings. ✅ Persons have partial or complete unawareness of the things in surroundings when possessed. ❌ Persons who are possessed do not have any impairment in social, cultural or other areas of functioning. ✅ They may […]

Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 ❌ Conversion disorder is synonymous with Malingering ✅ Conversion disorder is a mental illness characterized by the loss or alteration of physical functioning withoutany physiological reason. These physical symptoms are the result of emotional conflicts or needs and areunconscious in nature. ❌ Hysteria is conversion disorder. ✅ Hysteria is […]

Volume 3 Issue 8 August, 2013 ❌ Panic disorder and Palpitation are one and the same ✅ Palpitation is not Panic Disorder. According to WHO Panic Disorder is diagnosed when multiple panic attacks that are characterized by breathlessness, chest pain, sense of impending doom or going crazy, dizziness, tremors, dryness of mouth, urgency in urination […]

Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 ❌ Bipolar disorders and schizoaffective disorder are one and same ✅ As the word Manic Depressive Psychosis created confusion because it conveyed the possibility of both, it is less commonly used. Bipolar disorders usually do not meet the criteria for schizophrenia. Whereas schizoaffective disorder meets the criteria for mood […]

Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 ❌ People who commit crime are mentally Ill ✅ Majority of those who commit crime are not mentally ill. In fact people with mental illness implicated in crime neither have ‘intention’ nor ‘understand the consequence’ of the act, which is essential for culpable crime. ❌ Patients with mental illness […]