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Psychiatry is a medical specialty dealing with the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of mental illness. A psychiatric disorder is a mental illness diagnosed by a mental health professional that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods, and/or behavior and seriously increases your risk of disability, pain, death, or loss of freedom.

Signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders include:

• Confused thinking
• Reduced ability to concentrate
• Deep, ongoing sadness, or feeling “down”
• Inability to manage day-to-day stress and problems
• Trouble understanding situations and other people
• Withdrawal from others and from activities you used to enjoy
• Extreme tiredness, low energy, or sleeping problems
• Strong feelings of fear, worry, or guilt
• Extreme mood changes, from highs to lows, often shifting very quickly
• Detachment from reality (delusions), paranoia (belief that others are “out to get you,”) or hallucinations (seeing things that aren’t there)
• Marked changes in eating habits
• A change in sex drive
• Drug or alcohol abuse
• Excessive anger, hostility, and/or violence
• Suicidal thinking

A psychiatric disorder may also cause physical symptoms, such as a headache, back pain, or stomach pain or any other unexplained aches and pains.

At Chethana Neuro Centre based on the symptoms, proper assessment of patient’s condition is evaluated and treated accordingly. Few disorders treated here include:

• Neurodevelopment Disorders - these disorders usually begin in infancy or childhood, often before a child starts school like ADHD, Autism, Learning disorder etc
• Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders - people with these diagnoses experience delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking and speech, detachment from reality etc
• Bipolar and Related Disorders - episodes of mania (periods of excessive excitement, activity, and energy) alternate with periods of depression
• Depressive Disorders (MDD, PMDD, PMS etc) - characterized by feelings of extreme sadness and worthlessness, along with reduced interest in previously enjoyable activities
• Anxiety Disorders (GAD, Panic disorder, and Phobias) - involves focusing on bad or dangerous things that could happen and worrying fearfully and excessively about them
• Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCD, Hoarding disorder, Hair-pulling disorder etc) - repeated and unwanted urges, thoughts, or images (obsessions) and feel driven to taking repeated actions in response to them (compulsions)
• Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders (PTSD, Acute stress disorder etc) - these disorders develop during or after stressful or traumatic life events
• Dissociative Disorders - here person’s sense of self is disrupted, such as dissociative identity disorder and dissociative amnesia etc
• Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders - person may have distressing and incapacitating physical symptoms with no clear medical cause
• Feeding and Eating Disorders - disturbances related to eating, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
• Elimination Disorders - inappropriate elimination (release) of urine or stool by accident or on purpose. Bedwetting (enuresis) is an example
• Sleep-Wake Disorders - severe sleep disorders, including insomnia disorder, nightmare disorder, sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome
• Sexual Dysfunctions - disorders of sexual response include such diagnoses as premature ejaculation, erectile disorder, and female orgasmic disorder etc
• Gender Dysphoria - stem from the distress that goes with a person's stated desire to be a different gender
• Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders - difficulty with emotional and behavioral self-control like kleptomania (repeated stealing), intermittent explosive disorder etc
• Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders - problems associated with excessive use of alcohol, opioids (for example, oxycodone and morphine), recreational drugs, hallucinogens, excessive gambling etc
• Neurocognitive Disorders (Delirium ,Alzheimer's etc) - these affect people’s ability to think and reason as well as disorders of thinking and reasoning caused by such conditions or diseases as traumatic brain injury or Alzheimer's disease.
• Personality Disorders (Borderline, Antisocial, Narcissistic etc) - involves a lasting pattern of emotional instability and unhealthy behaviors that seriously disrupt daily living and relationships
• Paraphilic Disorders - many sexual-interest disorders which include sexual sadism disorder, voyeuristic disorder, pedophilic disorder etc