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 […]
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Inpatient Ward Experience of Resident: First Impression
It has been exactly two weeks since I began my journey as a first-year Psychiatry postgraduate resident at a teaching hospital, and I would like to reflect on my experiences in the psychiatric wards so far. I vividly remember my first day of ward rounds with my senior postgraduates, when I encountered a patient who […]
AI-assisted CBT: Exploring the future of CBT with AI
Today, as AI is slowly creeping its way into everything we do and proving its usefulness in its own unique ways, it makes sense to explore its utility in providing Cognitive behavioural therapy too. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is a structured process of understanding a person’s thoughts, questioning them, and restructuring them to break […]