Volume 12 Issues 11 November, 2022
उम्मीद “The Hope”
Volume 12 Issues 11 November, 2022 तू उदास यूँ ही ना बैठ ऐ दोस्त, कभी तो बारिश आयेगी मेघ घुमड़ कर आएंगे, कभी तो बदरी छायेगी हार मानने वालों के कभी वक्त साथ नहीं होता है आस रखेगा जब तक तू हर घडी भी रंगत लाएगी I तू उदास यूँ ही ना बैठ ऐ दोस्त, […]
Mental Health Education and Promotion for a healthy mind
Dr Latha K Volume 12 Issues 11 November, 2022 Mental Health Promotion (MHP) involves strengthening the policy environment and using strategic communication for network building, stakeholder engagement, enhanced mental health literacy and behaviour change. The lack of mental health literacy and stigma associated with mental illness in our society is reflected in the public’s attitude. […]
The Amazing Teaching Skill of the Student !!
Dr Kishor M Volume 12 Issues 11 November, 2022 Down the memory lane The class began for final-year medical students; as previously notified to them, I called the student who was assigned a five-minute presentation on the topic. As the student initiated the session and concluded enthusiastically, I was stunned by the student’s ability to […]
Management of the wandering mentally-ill roadside destitute
Dr Bharat Vatwani Volume 12 Issues 11 November, 2022 Continuation of the article publishes in previous issue i.e. Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2022 …. A wandering, mentally ill destitute poses a different set of complex psychiatric and medical problems requiring other skills for successful solutions. Medical Challenges Post Rescue: The destitute go through extremes […]
Can you cross the crosswords!!
Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022
Cancer and Mental health: an essential but always overlooked aspect of cancer care
-Dr Amit Pandey Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Mental health is essential to overall health and well-being, especially for cancer patients. Per the latest GLOBOCAN data incidence of cancer in India is around 13lakhs new cases (1). The sufferings of cancer disease are from all the strata of society, ranging from rich to poor, […]
Early exposure to psychiatry & its competencies to medical undergraduates by CBME: how is it a game changer?
–DR.VAIBHAVI.P.S Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Ever since our school days, we were taught only about physical health and ways to maintain it. The concept of mental health seemed almost nil at a younger age, and so did awareness about mental health.In the pre-CBME era, though the 1st year MBBS dealt with the anatomy […]
Down the memory lane
-Dr M Kishor Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 As a young psychiatry teacher in a medical college more than a decade ago, I looked at many ways to engage medical students. There were hardly any efforts before made in that institution. Months later, a medical student came to me and was eager to hand […]
Stigma and Empathy – inverse correlates in the wandering mentally-ill
From the desk of Editor: Guest Editorial by Dr Bharat Vatwani Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Mental Illness carries a stigma – either Social Stigma or Self Stigma. Stigma causes mentally-ill people to feel ashamed for something that is, in reality, out of their control. There is exclusion, poor social support, isolation, loneliness and low self-esteem. […]