motivation behind the internet addiction

Adlerian theory holds that people are goal-directed and purposeful in their behavior. Adler commented on human being goal-directed, “A person would not know what to do with himself were he not oriented toward some goal. We cannot think, feel, will, or act without the perception of some goal” (Ansbacher & Ansbacher, 1956)

Internet addicts are motivated by a purposeful goal, a quest to adventure upon to find belonging, significance, and to contribute. Consequently, the quest for connection, friendship, relationships, and love on social media sites, chat rooms, and virtual sex through pornography is inexorably tied to the longing to belong, to find significance, and to contribute. We are social creatures, and in our longing to be connected, we can sometimes reach out in unhealthy ways. Hence, teenagers are looking for belonging, connection, social acceptance, and contribution, and the Internet, in and of itself, provides a faux fulfillment of those longings.Adlerian strategy to find freedom from addiction is imbedded in discovering the true goal behind the substance use and helping the individual meet that goal in a healthier way.

Adlerian theory purports that humans are driven to superiority stemming from feelings of inferiority discovered earlier in life rooted in their desire to belong. These feelings of inferiority drive humans to belong, to find significance, and to contribute to society to compensate for those inferior feelings. However, striving to reach our goals to belong, to find significance, and contribute can be completed on the useful or the useless side of life; in other words, humans strive on the vertical plane (motivated by self-interest) or on the horizontal plane (motivated by community interest) (Griffith & Powers, 2007).

An Adlerian perspective of adolescent Internet addiction would be that the addiction is the expression of a  struggle to overcome their inferiority feelings. The addiction presents itself because of the lack of courage in the individual to face reality and their life tasks. The individuals selfishly retreats into the Internet out of fear of being discovered, and so is hesitant of relationships with others in the real world. The fear of having others uncover their inadequacies is too much to bear. These inferiority feelings are also linked to the sense of not belonging that so many addicts report. This inferiority could be linked to the sense of "not belonging" that so many addicts report (Young, 1998; Brown, 2014)

Internet addicts confess their inability to successfully maintain their relationships with others, and as a result, a sense of worthlessness pervades. Furthermore, if these individuals dealing with Internet addiction have not experienced belonging or significance in the real world, these feelings of worthlessness are even more potent (Young, 1998). Adlerian theory emphasizes the importance of one’s final fictional goal, and students struggling with compulsive Internet use,might create a new goal of protecting and hiding their worthlessness, so the Internet becomes the refuge. Now the individual mistakenly believes that he or she must live online in order to survive offline (Brown, 2014). In other words, the individual tries to eliminate feelings of inferiority through their continue retreat into the Web. This fear of failure is problematic because it prevents the individual from succeeding in one of the three main life tasks outlined by Adler (1956): work/school, friendship, and intimacy.

Adler in The Neurotic Constitution (1916) discoursed about self-indulgence as a lifestyle problem and considered alcoholism and addiction as a form of retrogressive movement and suggested that alcoholics are “pampered failures” who lack courage and social interest. Adler (1956) stated, "Very frequently the beginning of addiction shows an acute feeling of inferiority marked by shyness, a liking for isolation, oversensitivity, impatience, irritability, and by neurotic symptoms like anxiety, depression and sexual insufficiency" (p. 423). Laskowitz (1961), an Adlerian theorist, furthers this idea when he indicated, “The adolescent drug addict is socially distant, suffers from heightened feelings of inadequacy, lacks courage, desires to be shielded and pampered."

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A lot of people struggle with overwhelming emotions. It’s as if the knob is turned to maximum
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If you’ve faced overwhelming emotions in your life, you know what we’re talking about. There
are days when your feelings hit you with the force of a tsunami. And when that happens, it makes
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emotions. The trouble is, the more you try to suppress or put a lid on your emotions, the more
overwhelming they can get. 

What’s important to know right now is that trying to stop your feelings doesn’t work. There’s a fair amount of research to suggest that the likelihood of developing intense, overwhelming emotions may be hardwired from birth. But it can also be greatly affected by trauma or neglect during childhood. 

Trauma at critical points in our development can literally alter our brain structure in ways that make us more vulnerable to intense, negative emotions. However, the fact that a propensity to intense emotions is often rooted in genetics or trauma doesn’t mean the problem can’t be overcome. Thousands of people have used the skills you’ll can learn  to achieve better emotional control. They have changed their lives—and you can too.

So what are these skills, and how will they help you? Dialectical behavior therapy teaches four critically important skills that can both reduce the size of emotional waves and help you keep your balance when those emotions overwhelm you.

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Life Style Assessment

The best way to validate the usefulness and reliability of lifestyle assessment is through personal experience as a subject of an assessment. You may become more aware of your own perceptions with the aid of a counselor. Even more revealing is to be confronted with a genuine incongruity in one’s experience or expectations, for example, with a coworker, significant other, or similar relationship. Properly done, lifestyle assessment will uncover the source of discomfort in the relationships that challenge a person. They are a part of one’s private convictions, values, and expectations.

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As is true of all people, Adler was a product of his times and unique life experiences. Educated as a physician and psychiatrist at a time when scientific, reductionist thinking predominated, he was taught that people can only be understood in part and not in whole, and that mental illness existed only in the mind. Yet he chose to believe that people function as an integrated whole, that individuals cannot be understood outside of their relational and environmental context, that mental illness is a creative response to life circumstances, and that mental health is a personal choice achieved through interest in and cooperation with others. Consistent with these concepts, he defined the goal of helping as one of finding meaning in life through the promotion of social interest.

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Professional school counselors need not withdraw from helping students with addictions, but rather, school counselors need to be effectively equipped to help students with addictions by being familiar with the warning signs of addiction, being able to effectively screen students for addictions, and then competently refer students to professional therapists specializing in addictions. Mind Zone  contribute to the efficacy and ability of the professional school counselor to support, challenge, help, encourage, and advocate for students with addictive disorders. We help professional school counselors grasp the significance of the digital age students are living in, assess the positive and negative consequences of technology and the Internet, and understand the ever-increasing problem of Internet addiction and a few related addictions. Also, we offers insight into an Adlerian perspective on addiction, gives resourceful information on effective and research-based interventions to be used as models for the effectual treatment of students with addictions, provides screening questions and tools for counselors to used during assessment, and includes a list of warning signs of various addictions in students for school counselors to reference when a potential addiction is suspected.


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Manam Yennum Mayakkannadi - Article No. 5 (Tamil)

மனம் என்னும் மாயகண்ணாடி 5

விஜய். பார்க்க மிக அழகான இளைஞராக இருக்கும் அவருக்கு மனநோய் பாதிப்பு இருக்குமென நான் கொஞ்சமும் நினைக்கவில்லை. ஆனால், அவர் மிகத் தீவிரமான மனநோயின் தாக்கத்தில் இருப்பது மனநல மருத்துவர் சொல்லியே எனக்கு தெரிந்தது. அவன் சதா தன் அப்பா முன் வைத்த சவால் விசித்திரமானது. ஒரு கத்தியை அவர் முன்னால் போட்டு ஒன்று நீ என்னைக் கொல்லு அல்லது நான் உன்னைக் கொல்கிறேன் என்பதே அது. கேட்டதும் எனக்கு ஒரு முறை தூக்கி வாரிப் போட்டது.
விஜய் மிக நன்றாக படிக்கக் கூடிய மாணவனாகத் தான் இருந்திருக்கிறான். நன்றாக என்றால் ரொம்பவே நன்றாகவே. அழகான குடும்பம். ஒரே ஒரு தங்கை. வேலை பார்க்கும் பெற்றோர். நம்மை மீறி செயல்படும் சக்தியின் பெயர் கடவுளா விதியா என்று மனித சமுதாயம் ஒருமித்த ஒரு பதில் தெரியாத வரைக்கும் அவன் வாழ்வின் சிக்கல்களுக்கான தத்துவார்த்த பதில் கிடைக்கப் போவதில்லை. பள்ளியில் எந்த பரீட்சையோ, போட்டியோ அவனுக்கே முதல் இடம் கிடைக்கும்.
வீட்டில் இருக்கும் இருசக்கர வாகனத்தை அப்பா இல்லாத போது அவன் நணபர்களோடு பந்தயம் வைத்து ஓட்டி செல்ல அப்பா கண்டு பிடித்து திட்டியும் பழக்கம் தொடர்கிறது. அப்படியொரு நாள் அவன் அப்பாவுக்கு தெரியாமல் வண்டி எடுத்து போய் பந்தயத்தில் வேகமாக ஓட்டி விபத்தில் சிக்குகிறான். உடன் வந்த நண்பர்கள் பயத்தில் அவனை அப்படியே போட்டு விட்டு செல்ல அவனுக்கு மூளைக்கு செல்லும் ரத்தம் தடைப்பட்டு ஆக்சிஜன் போகும் பாதையில் தடை ஏற்படுகிறது.

வீட்டுக்கு போன் வந்து பதறி மருத்துவமனைக்கு சென்று மகனைப் பார்த்த அப்பா பதறினார். எவ்வளவு செலவானாலும் சரி மகனை காப்பாற்றினால் போதும் என பெற்றோர் துடிக்க அவனுக்கு அறுவை சிகிச்சை மேற்கொள்ளப்படுகிறது. ஆக்சிஜன் போகாததால் மூளை பாதித்து இருக்கிறதென மருத்துவர்கள் சொல்கிறார்கள்.
ஆறு மாத மருத்துவமனை வாசத்திற்குப் பிறகு அவன் மீண்டும் பள்ளிக்கு செல்ல அங்கு பாடங்களை ஞாபகம் வைத்துக் கொள்வதில் பெரும் சிக்கல் ஏற்படுகிறது. ஒன்று அவனால் முழுதுமாக சமீபத்தில் நடந்தவற்றை நினைவு வைத்துக் கொள்ள இயலவில்லை. பழைய நினைவுகள் அவன் வசம் முழுதுமாக இருந்தது. அவனுள் அது மிக மோசமான விளைவுகளை மேற்கொண்டது. அது ஏற்படுத்திய தாக்கமே அவனிடம் தேங்கி நின்ற அந்த ஒற்றை கேள்வி. இன்று பதினாறு வருடங்கள் ஆகி விட்டது. ஆனாலும் தொனியிலோ வலியிலோ எள்ளளவும் குறையவில்லை அவனிடம் மிஞ்சியிருக்கும் அந்தக் கேள்வியில் – என்ன ஏன் அப்பா காப்பாத்துன?
பத்தாவது வகுப்பில் மனநல மருத்துவரின் பரிந்துரையின் படி, கூடுதலாக ஒரு மணி நேர அவகாசம் வாங்கி பரீட்சையில் வெற்றி பெற்றான். அது போலவே பன்னிரெண்டாம் மற்றும் அவன் அப்பா சேர்த்த பொறியியல் கல்லூரி படிப்பிலும் அவன் வெற்றி பெற்றான்.
ஆனால், இந்த காலகட்டம் மிக வேதனை வாய்ந்தது. அவனது ஞாபக மறதியை உடன் படிக்கும் மாணவர்கள் கிண்டல் செய்ய அவன் மிக பாதிப்பிற்குள்ளாகிறான். இயலாமையின் தாக்கத்தில் கோபம் வந்து அவர்களை அடிக்க , புகார்கள் குவிந்த காலங்களை அப்பா தனது அரசு பணியின் சக்தியால் வென்றெடுக்கிறார். மிகுந்த மனக்குழப்பத்தில் அவன் தற்கொலை செய்து கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்கிறான். நிறைய சாப்பிட ஆரம்பிக்கிறான். எப்போதும் சமூக வலைத்தளங்களில் உள்ள டேட்டிங் தளங்களில் ஈடுபடுவது. இதை தட்டிக் கேட்டால் அவன் அப்பாவிடம் கேட்பது – என்ன ஏன் அப்பா காப்பாத்தின.
மூளையின் செயல்பாடுகளால் ஏற்பட்ட பாதிப்பால் தான் இந்த உலகில் வாழ தகுதியற்றவன் என்ற எண்ணம் அவனுக்கு ஏற்பட்டது. தானா இப்படி ஆகி விட்டேன் என அவனாலேயே தாங்கிக் கொள்ள முடியவில்லை. ஒரு பரீட்சையில் பத்து மதிப்பெண்ணுக்கு ஏழு வாங்கிய போது அவன் மனம் உடைந்து மாடியிலிருந்து குதித்திருக்கிறான். ஏழு மதிப்பெண் வாங்கும் மாணவனா நான் என்று கேட்ட அவனுக்கான ஆறுதலை சமூகமோ குடும்பமோ காலமோ அவனுக்கு வழங்கவில்லை.
மெல்ல மெல்ல தனிமையின் கோட்டைக்குள் புகுந்தான் அவன். மக்களோடு பழகினால் தன் உண்மையான குறைபாடால் ஒதுக்கப்பட்டு கேலி செய்யப்படுவதை நினைத்து அவன் மெல்ல தனி உலகினுள் புகுந்தான். அவனது நண்பர்கள் அவனை கஜினி என்று அழைத்தார்கள்.

அவனது தங்கைக்கும் அவனுக்கும் சின்ன சின்னதாய் மோதல்கள் மனதளவில் வர ஆரம்பித்தன. அவன் அப்படி இருப்பதால் தன்னால் தன் நண்பர்களை வீட்டுக்கு அழைத்து வர முடியவில்லையே என்று தங்கைக்கு ஆதங்கம். அவன் மேலிருக்கும் வெறுப்பு, இந்த மருத்துவ முறைமை மீதிருக்கும் வெறுப்பு இவை எல்லாவற்றையும் அவன் அப்பா, அம்மா, தங்கை மீது அறைக்கதவை பூட்டி விட்டு அடிப்பதில் காட்டுவான். அப்போதெல்லாம் அவன் அப்பா முன் கத்தியை நீட்டி- ஒன்று நீ என்னை கொலை செய்..அல்லது நான் உன்னைக் கொலை செய்வேன் என்று சொல்ல, மொத்த குடும்பத்தின் மகிழ்ச்சியும் சிதைகிறது.
பின் அதைத் தாங்க முடியாமல் குடும்பத்தினர் மன நல காப்பகத்திற்கு ஒரு முறை போன் செய்து அவனிடமிருந்து தப்பினர். அதன்பிறகு, இப்போது வரை ஏழு ஆண்டுகளுக்கும் மேலாக மன நல காப்பகத்தில் தான் இருக்கிறான். சமூகத்தின் மீது ஒரு கசிப்புணர்வும் காழ்ப்புணர்வும் அவனுள் அதிகரித்து உள்ளது.
ஆனாலும், இன்றும் மாடியிலிருந்து குதித்து விடுவேன் என்று சொல்வது அவனிடம் இருந்து கொண்டே இருக்கிறது. தொலைதொடர்பு சாதனங்கள் எதுவும் அவனிடம் கொடுக்காமல் இப்போது காப்பகத்தில் வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள். எனக்கு ரெண்டு கல்யாணம் செய்யணும்...எங்கப்பா மகாத்மா காந்திக்கு உறவினர் தெரியுமா என்று அவன் சொல்லும் வார்த்தைகள் தான் அவனது உளவியல் சிக்கலை சொல்கின்றன. மருந்துகள் வாயிலாக அவனது வன்முறை மனதை தணித்து மனதிற்கு ஆலோசனை மட்டுமல்ல, சில செயல்திறன் பயிற்சிகள் மூலமாகவும் அவனது கவனத்தை கூர்மைப்படுத்த முனைகிறார்கள்.
எல்லோருடைய மூளையையும் செயல்திறன் பயிற்சிகளால் இன்னும் கூர்மைப்படுத்த முடியும். விஜய் இன்றும் சிறு குழந்தை போல் சாலை கடக்க முடியாமல் இருக்கிறான். தனக்கு அப்பா ஒரு கம்ப்யூட்டர் செண்டர் வைத்துக் கொடுத்து அதன் முதலாளியாக இருக்க நினைகிறான். இரண்டு திருமணங்கள் செய்ய நினைக்கிறான். இதெல்லாம், அப்பா அவனை பார்க்க வரும் போதெல்லாம் கேட்கிறான். அவர் மறுத்ததால் அவன் கேட்பது – அப்பா எதுக்கு என்ன காப்பாத்தின ?

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Clinical Psychologist                                                        Counseling Psychologist
Founder - Mind Zone                                                        co-founder, Mind zone

psychiatric hospital in chennai

A comprehensive treatment package is available at mind zone.  The only hospital in Chennai who caters Psycho social intervention as a main line of management for the Psychiatric and Addiction case.  The team of Clinical psychologist, Counseling Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Physician, Yoga therapist, Art therapist, Physical trainer, Psychiatric Social Worker and psychiatric nurses works round the clock at mind zone.

Sunil Kumar                                                   Jayasudha Kamaraj
Clinical Psychologist                                      Counseling Psychologist
Founder - Mind Zone                                      Co-founder, Mind Zone
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self esteem

The concept of self-esteem is often explained in terms of self-acceptance and self-respect. In some popular literature, positive self-talk practiced throughout the day is portrayed as a technique for overcoming poor self concept.

Positive self-worth is central to experiencing positive self-esteem, but it is an achievement earned by meeting life’s tasks on a day-to-day basis, often without great fanfare or acknowledgment by others. Achievement is both a product and promoter of what is called self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is confidence in one’s ability to reason, problem solve, think creatively, and cope with the basic tasks of life. This is not done in a vacuum.

Consequences of Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is the result of a human process so fundamental that it is a part of what constitutes human nature. From the time of birth, one begins experiencing life as pleasurable, satisfying, safe, supportive, or not. Individuals are alert to signs that convey what they can expect from others, their own efforts, and life in general. Although this process of seeking cues continues throughout people’s lives, their earliest experiences tend to establish the expectations that will guide them throughout the remainder of their lives.

As a consequence, people tend to filter new experiences according to their expectations. Equally important, they create new experiences that will reinforce their self-fulfilling prophecies about themselves, others, and life. Left unchallenged and unexamined, their early self-assessments tend to guide their thoughts, emotions, and actions much like an autopilot that has been preprogrammed to a distant destination. Therefore, early life experiences are the repository of anticipation of future success or lack thereof in meeting life tasks. Individuals with a positive sense of worth tend to approach their basic life tasks with a confidence and expectation that they will be successful and happy in all that they do. This fundamental difference between individuals with high and low sense of worth also explains the power of these convictions.

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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST                     COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGIST

FOUNDER - MIND ZONE                          CO-FOUNDER, MIND ZONE

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Assessing the Suicidal Risks

The reason you need all this information is because:

Following a suicide attempt there is a particular risk of a repeat attempt if:

i) The attempt was pre-meditated and actively prepared for.

ii) Precautions had been made to prevent intervention by an outsider.

iii) The attempt was carried out in isolation or timed to minimize risk of discovery.

iv) Suicidal intent was communicated prior to the attempt.

iv) Final acts were completed in anticipation of death e.g., a will or suicide note.

vi) Violent or active methods were used.

vii) The person believed that the act would be irreversible and lethal.

viii) Person states that the intention of the act was to kill themselves.

ix) Person regrets having survived the attempt.

x) No action was taken to gain help after the event.

xi) Numerous previous attempts with the apparent intent to die.

factors influencing suicide.....

                         Factors that may increase a person’s risk for suicide include:

•           Current ideation, intent, plan, access to means

•           Previous suicide attempt or attempts

•           Alcohol /Substance abuse

•           Current or previous history of psychiatric diagnosis

•           Impulsivity and poor self control

•           Hopelessness – presence, duration, severity

•           Recent losses – physical, financial, personal

•           Recent discharge from an inpatient psychiatric unit

•           Family history of suicide

•           History of abuse (physical, sexual or emotional)

•           Co-morbid health problems, especially a newly diagnosed problem or worsening symptoms

•           Age, gender, race (elderly or young adult, unmarried, white, male, living alone)

•           Same- sex sexual orientation

Factors that may decrease the risk for suicide are also called protective factors.  These include:

•           Positive social support

•           Spirituality

•           Sense of responsibility to family

•           Children in the home, pregnancy

•           Life satisfaction

•           Reality testing ability

•           Positive coping skills

•           Positive problem-solving skills

•           Positive therapeutic relationship

Sunil Kumar                                                 Jayasudha Kamaraj

Clinical Psychologist                                   Counseling Psychologist

Founder - Mind Zone                                   Co-founder - Mind Zone

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Warning Signs of Suicide.....

THE FIRST THREE WARNING SIGNS OF SUICIDE ARE:

•           Threatening to hurt or kill self

•           Looking for ways to kill self; seeking access to pills, weapons or other means

•           Talking or writing about death, dying or suicide

 The remaining list of warning signs should alert the clinician that a mental health evaluation needs to be conducted in the VERY near future and that precautions need to be put into place IMMEDIATELY to ensure the safety, stability and security of the individual.

•           Hopelessness

•           Rage, anger, seeking revenge

•           Acting reckless or engaging in risky activities, seemingly without thinking

•           Feeling trapped – like there’s no way out

•           Increasing alcohol or drug abuse

•           Withdrawing from friends, family or society

•           Anxiety, agitation, unable to sleep or sleeping all the time

•           Dramatic changes in mood

•           No reasonfor living, no sense of purpose in life

Other behaviors that may be associated with increased short-term risk for suicide are when the patient makes arrangements to divest responsibility for dependent others (children, pets, elders), or making other preparations such as updating wills, making  financial arrangements for paying bills, saying goodbye to loved ones, etc.

Contact: Mind Zone if you come across any person who are at risk for Suicide...

Sunil Kumar                                        Jayasudha Kamaraj

Clinical Psychologist                          Counseling Psychologist

Founder- Mind Zone                           Co-founder -  Mind Zone

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Anxiety

The prototype of anxiety is the fearof separation from loved ones, initially from the mother, especially in infancy, the period of absolute helplessness. In the Freudian view, anxiety emerges in aloneness and darkness, only because these two situations mean separation, and if it persists throughout life, it becomes neurotic.

 Regardless of the model of anxiety he adopts (i.e., anxiety as a transformation of undischarged libido or anxiety as a signal of a danger), Freud always associated anxiety with traumatic object loss. He wrote (Freud, 1905/1953) that “anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact that they are feeling the loss of the person they love”, and in a later essay (Freud, 1926/1959a), “anxiety appears as the reaction to the felt loss of the object”.  In the course of development, anxiety is determined also by the threat of losing the love of the object. Freud (1926/1959a) distinguished between anxiety as a reaction to the danger of loss and the pain of mourning which is the reaction to the actual loss of the object. Thus, loneliness may be regarded as the painful longing for the lost object or for the loss of the love of the object.

Sunil kumar                                                      Jayasudha Kamaraj

Clinical Psychologist                                        Counseling Psychologist

Founder - Mind Zone                                        Co-founder -  Mind Zone

+91 9444 297058                                              +91 91760 55660

Win Over Your loneliness @ www.mindzone.in

The interpersonal problems and low-quality, unstable relationships of insecurely attached people can easily result in subjective feelings of loneliness. The term loneliness refers to a negative psychological experience that emanates from actual or perceived deficiencies in a person’s relationships and from feelings of deprivation in relation to others.

Loneliness as a “subjective distressing and unpleasant state in which individuals perceive deficiencies in their social world” . These deficiencies are not only quantitative, such as few friends or infrequent social activities, but are also indicative of poor-quality relationships in which people feel a lack of intimacy and emotional closeness as well as feel unloved, unaccepted, not sufficiently cared for, misunderstood, or unvalidated by a relationship partner. In fact, a person can feel lonely while being in a close relationship with a cool, rejecting, inconsistent, or unavailable partner.

Sunil Kumar                                                    Jayasudha Kamaraj
Clinical Psychologist                                       Counseling Psychologist
Founder - Mind Zone                                      Co-Founder - mind zone
+91 9444 297058                                            +91 91760 55660

women and mental health.........http://mindzone.in/general/

The particular mental health experiences of women have received great attention in recent years. This reflects growing concern about the burden of mental health problems on the lives of women and their families. The most common mental health disorders are anxiety and depression, and women are particularly prone to such disorders.Depressive and anxiety disorders pose a major public health problem with substantial economic and social burden.

women have an almost 2-fold risk of these disorders compared to men, a difference that starts in

childhood or early adolescence and persists into adulthood. Further, depressive and anxiety disorders have been associated with the development and progression of various forms of physical disease, suggesting the associations of these psychiatric disorders with physical health in general.

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Sexuality is an integral and important part of people’s lives.  Sexual health is important for one’s well-being, and sexual enjoyment adds to quality of life at any age. Sexual expression can help define one’s sense of personal competence, well-being, and masculinity or femininity, and it serves a large role in the expression of intimacy in interpersonal relationships. Conversely, sexual dysfunction can have adverse effects on one’s sense of competence and well-being and on interpersonal bonding. Many people believe that an unhappy sex life can lead to numerous problems, including depression and marital breakup.

Only a minority of general psychiatrists in the Chennai, India specialize in the treatment of sexual disorders. In the remote and recent past, psychiatry as a field had a greater interest in human sexuality. Sexuality was a major focus in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Sigmund Freud postulated that libido was one of the basic instincts. His work, including Three Essays on the Theory of
Sexuality (Freud 1905/1953), was one of the triggers of psychiatry’s interest in human sexuality and its importance for human development. Work of other pioneers, such as Havelock Ellis and Alfred Kinsey, brought a lot of attention and interest to the field, from both psychiatrists and the general public.

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social phobia...........http://mindzone.in/...........

Situations Commonly Feared by Individuals with Social Phobia

• Public speaking (e.g., making a speech, making a toast at a wedding, doing a reading in church/synagogue, making a presentation in class).

• Being the center of attention (e.g., telling a story or a joke, receiving a compliment).

• Initiating and/or maintaining casual conversations.

• Meeting new people (e.g., introducing self, breaking into conversations, etc.).

• Eating, drinking, writing, working in front of others.

• Being assertive—asking others to change their behavior or refusing unreasonable requests.

• Voicing opinions, especially if they are controversial.

• Talking to authority figures.

• Interviewing for a job.

• Dating.

• Talking on the telephone.

• Going to the gym or participating in sports.

• Performing in front of an audience (e.g., playing an instrument, acting in a play).


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Anxiety........... http://mindzone.in/

 There is ample evidence concerning the burden of anxiety disorders. We clinicians know the personal distress of those suffering with panic attacks, severe phobias or obsessive–compulsive disorder, not to mention people living with stigmas of traumatic experiences. In addition to psychic pain, pathological anxiety severely affects the patient’s existence, causing a state of dependence which most often starts in early adulthood and has long-standing consequences, disrupting both family life and professional career.

Anxiety disorders, in particular panic attacks, go along with various autonomic disturbances that trigger physical complaints and motivate medical procedures. Therefore, when not properly recognized, anxiety syndromes often induce useless and sometimes expensive complementary investigations, adding unnecessary strain for the patient and costs for the health care system. Finally, there is accumulating evidence that an anxiety disorder, when left untreated, may worsen the prognosis of a coexisting somatic condition. This has been clearly demonstrated in case of cardiac diseases. It certainly holds true in many other instances.

Overall, anxiety disorders represent an impressive burden of individual suffering, social impairment and economic costs. However, all too often the patient’s symptoms are not properly interpreted. It has been estimated that in primary care, less than half of the subjects presenting with an anxiety disorder are recognized as having a clinically relevant condition. Only a subset of them will be diagnosed as suffering with an anxiety disorder. And again, only a small part of those with a correct diagnosis of

anxiety will be fully informed and offered a state-of-the-art treatment.

As decision making for treatment of any disorder becomes more complex, a sound insight of the

underlying mechanisms will be essential. Hence, the good therapist should have an appropriate knowledge of basic psychology and neurosciences.

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