Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 Candles are easy enough to make. First, we heat paraffin wax until it melts, pour it into the correct mould, and add the essential fragrances. Finally, we allow it to set into the shape we see perfect. “Karthave! Don’t laugh so loudly, mole, and look at how you are […]
Prof. Bimla Buti: A Face of Indian Women Scientist
Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 Professor Buti was born in 1933; her family migrated from Lahore to Delhi during the partition of India. She was an arts student in High School as Government School, where she got admission on migration to Delhi, did not have science as an option. Her father, a Gold Medalist […]
Women and Modern World
An complication from women editor team of MINDS Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 It is a truth universally acknowledged, by the Indian ad industry, that the only thing that a working middle-class mother needs to fulfil the unrelenting demands from her family, colleagues, and bosses, is a fleet of slick kitchen appliances. The husband’s […]
‘SHE’ AND ‘HER PSYCHE’
Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 Mental health is any individual’s fundamental right and every attempt is to made to achieve it in one’s lifespan. Having said that, it is important to look after the various determinants which define its dimensions. Gender is one of such determinants which influence one’s mental health. Men and women […]
Dr Thara Rangaswamy: A Face of Indian Women Psychiatrist
Volume 12 Issue 3 March, 2022 Dr Thara Rangaswamy is a psychiatrist by training and the co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of a not-for-profit NGO called SCARF (Schizophrenia Research Foundation) in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. She was the Director of SCARF for 23 years. After her PhD on the subject of disability, she lobbied […]
Paintings
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 Dr. VijethaRadiation oncologist, Cytecare, Hebbal
Can you cross the crosswords!!!
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 DOWN: Irrational fear Disability of learning andcommunication Overwhelmed by thoughts Derailment of thoughts Burning the midnight oil Feeling someone’s face transforminto a monster Word salad Insanity Feeling that a particular eventhad already happened before Loss of memoryACROSS:5.Tendencytotellinappropriatejoke6.Hairpullingdisorder10.Nocturnalteethgrinding11.Decliningmentalabilities12.Socialunacceptability13.Laughingsickness17.Doubletrouble18.Youcannotdecide19.Confusionofimaginationwithmemory20.Makeapigofyourself ANSWERS (1) Phobia(2) Autism(3) Gedankenlautwerden(4) Entgleisen(5) Witzelsucht(6) Trichotillomania(7) Insomnia(8) Paraprosopia(9) Schizophasia(10) Bruxism(11) […]
DROP THE PHONE
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 Psychiatry as a field has been evolving since its very beginning and hence the spectrums of diagnosis have also expanded with the same. The spectrum to join the ever growing visual field of psychiatrists is the newest entrant‘ internet addiction’. Multiple studies have paved the way for the inclusion […]
THE GROWING WORLD OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 A common phrase heard throughout a doctor straining journey is “Prevention is better than cure”. This became very apparent for psychiatrists while treating acute mental illness in adults. We realized that for many of our patients standard treatments were insufficient in reducing morbidity due to delayed on set of […]