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 […]
Tag: Stigma
A Psychiatrist’s Reflection
Some patients stay in our minds long after the clinic door closes. Years pass, hundreds of files move across the desk, yet a few stories refuse to fade. This is the story of one such young man. It was during my initial years as an Assistant Professor at GMC Bhopal. In the busy OPD came […]
What’s in a name?
Shakespeare worked his way through my mind as I pondered over the question that my student had posed to me. “What difference does it make if I call my patient a schizophrenic or a person with Schizophrenia? Aren’t they both the same?” I knew the answer, but this time the question gnawed its way to […]