Low self-esteem affects physical health in many ways. It is many times associated with obesity, cardiovascular problems and many more. It is also an associated feature of various psychological disorders which include Depression, Anxiety, Social phobia, Anorexia, Bulimia, Body Dysmorphic Disorders, Alcohol abuse, OCD, Schizophrenia, Borderline Personality Disorder.

It will not be an exaggeration if I were to say that, there are very few people in this world who have neither heard nor used the term ‘OCD.’ OCD is a very casually used term amongst many, to tease a person who is very keen on either cleanliness or orderliness. Many movies have been made in vernacular languages with ‘OCD’ as their central theme....

An important question that now needs to be addressed is how to understand if we have suppressed our emotions or just controlled them effectively? Controlling emotions effectively is not wrong. An easy tip to figure out for ourselves if we have only controlled our emotions and not suppressed them would be to check if we are able to discuss or talk about the suffering which we...

Children being vulnerable to the domination of adults consider themselves as helpless because of their lack of knowledge and physical strength. Many a times, they cannot express openly what they are undergoing. Usually children feel that they will not be understood and supported.  Sometimes though they get support from their parents or significant others in their life, the abusers may threaten them, not to reveal anything...

Toxic relationships can be better understood by taking some feature films as examples. The list of feature films will be long, if I start illustrating the names of films which are based on toxic relationship. 

Midlife crisis isn’t your typical psychological disorder and so it doesn’t come under any diagnostic category of psychiatric illnesses.  It is but just a disturbance created in our adaptive capabilities for some time because of the changes in either professional or personal aspects of life.

Social anxiety disorder is characterized by the extreme levels of anxiety, nervousness, which is experienced by the person whenever they expose or have to expose to social gatherings or perform something on stage. This acute level of nervousness is because of the overwhelming fear of being judged, embarrassed, watched or humiliated by the people around.

Personality Disorder is a psychiatric condition where a person manifests consistent pattern of rigid, unhealthy way of thinking, feeling and behaving. Because of this disorder that person, can neither express oneself nor deal with others in the appropriate way. Adjusting to their own environment becomes a difficult task to people with personality disorder.  

Borderline personality disorder patient can be described in a single word as “UNSTABLE”. They are unstable in sense of self identity, relationships and moods. Causes for the development of Borderline Personality disorder are genetic factors and developmental factors.

Mental health is as important as physical health. Like we take care of our physical body, we should take care of our mind too. Our physical body tells us that it is sick by showing some symptoms like pain or fever or some other signs. In the same way, our mind too tells us that it is sick by showing symptoms like anxiety, sadness, disturbed...

People with this disorder cannot maintain inter personal relationships as they merely care about what the other person feels. Narcissistic personalities demand a great deal of affection, attention, sympathy and favors yet they give very little in return. They always need a partner who always openly admires them for whatever they do.

Anxiety is a boon in a way, if it is at optimum levels which further stimulates us to overcome challenges and heightens our performance as well. But if it is intense enough to disrupt our day to day functioning and it completely incapacitates our activities then, needless to say, it becomes a bane.

Self-blame is but an emotional abuse on oneself. Failure to show kindness towards ourselves halts us from making any kind of progress at all. These individuals, who are prone to self-blame, consider themselves to be imperfect.

A simple tip would be the right application of coping strategy which will end the pain of our misery. An easy trick to figure out if the strategy we are applying is Coping or Non-Coping in nature

Why would a middle aged Homeopathic Physician and Psychologist with some fairly amazing practice and experiences choose to blog, you think? To be honest, a fair share of the reasons include the crippling necessity to keep up with the changing times and digitizing what has been learnt throughout the practice that I have led so far but the main intent still persists to be about...