From Mania to Meaning: Lessons from a Patient’s Recovery by Dr. Simran Sandhu
During the early months of my residency, I encountered a patient whose journey has stayed with me ever since. She arrived at the emergency department in a state of heightened activity: singing, dancing, and radiating an infectious energy. For a fleeting moment, her exuberance felt uplifting. Yet, this was not joy in its truest sense; […]
An Unquiet Mind: Book Review by Dr. Sneha Gupta
Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind is one of those rare books that feels both professionally important and deeply personal. Jamison brings to the memoir an unusual perspective, being a distinguished academic psychologist, but also someone who has lived experiences of manic-depressive illness herself. That double perspective gives the book its real strength. The poignant […]
Portrait: Vincent Van Gogh by Dr. Rajeev Jain
Dr. Rajeev JainSenior Consultant PsychiatristSagar, Madhya Pradesh
The Two Weeks That Changed My Opinion by Sneha Gupta
During this psychiatry posting, I had the opportunity to gain exposure to both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services. I actively observed and participated along with residents in psychiatric history taking and Mental Status Examination (MSE), which helped me understand the systematic clinical approach to patients with mental illnesses. I learned about the diagnosis and management […]
Notice Board as Social Media!! by Dr. M. Kishor
More than fifteen years ago when I joined a medical college as young staff, there was hardly any undergraduate psychiatry class!! First, there were nothing called regular staff and secondly, undergraduate students would not attend the session as psychiatry was not mandatory!! Attendance in psychiatry was never counted, all the more reason for students to […]
Personality Disorder: The Patients Psychiatrists Dislike by Dr. Priyash Jain
She brushed off the suicide attempt with a casual air, terming it as part of a larger pattern of impulsive behaviour that came under the ambit of borderline personality disorder. As if such an impulsive attempt did not count as a suicide attempt. As if such impulsivity was to be taken with a grain of […]
My Psychiatry Posting Reflection: Two Weeks That Changed My View
I completed my psychiatry intern posting for a duration of two weeks. Before starting this posting, I had many misconceptions about psychiatry as a subject and about psychiatric hospitals. Like many people, I believed that psychiatric wards are frightening places, patients are violent, and treatments are harsh. I had also heard many negative things about […]
Udta Punjab: Movie Review
Udta Punjab (2016) is a Hindi film that explores the severe drug abuse problem in Punjab and its deep psychological, social, and psychiatric consequences. From a psychiatric perspective, the movie is a strong depiction of substance use disorders, their risk factors, manifestations, and impact on individuals and society. The character Tommy Singh, a popular rock […]