Internet addiction increasing among Indian children...........

A new story appeared in navbharat times Hindi daily: 'children are becoming internet addicts'
http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/children-are-becoming-internet-addicts/articleshow/17504025.cms

इहबास के मनोरोग विशेषज्ञ डॉ. ओम प्रकाश का कहना है कि नेट के बहुत ज्यादा इस्तेमाल से याददाश्त पर काफी फर्क पड़ता है। मेमोरी कमजोर होने लगती है। बहुत सारे बच्चों की इसी वजह से पढ़ाई लिखाई में अचानक ही कमजोरी दिखने लगती है। मां बाप को चाहिए कि कम उम्र में ही इंटरनेट की पहुंच से बच्चों को दूर रखें। जरूरत हो तो बच्चों द्वारा नेट के इस्तेमाल पर अपना कंट्रोल रखें।

Smoking and its medical complications.............

A news story appeared in Hindustan Hindi daily on 'five enemies of Heart'

http://www.livehindustan.com/news/lifestyle/lifestylenews/article1-DIL-heart--50-50-256910.html

इहबास अस्पताल के मनोचिकित्सक डॉ. ओमप्रकाश कहते हैं कि सिगरेट मस्तिष्क की क्रियाशीलता को कुछ देर के लिए कम कर देती है। इससे माना जाता कि इसके सेवन से तनाव को कम किया जा सकता है। लेकिन इसके अभी तक वैज्ञानिक परिणाम नहीं मिले हैं।

Ageing and Mental health in India: A Wakeup Call

Ageing and Mental health in India:A Wakeup Call
An article published in Helpage Journal

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CHAQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.helpageindia.org%2Fhelpageprd%2Fdownload.php%3Ffp%3DaW1hZ2VzL3B1Ymxpc2hpbmc%3D%26f%3DMTI5NDAzMzYxNy5wZGY%3D&ei=X4VUUfaqA8i4rAeyyID4CQ&usg=AFQjCNFvPFdB6BBs4fbQ-lsqwdN2tvfMMw&sig2=xFEaNsD-B8HRNpyyzMQI6Q
 

It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years of life – Our objective

must also be to add new life to those years”

John F Kennedy (Message to US Congress,February 21, 1963)

 

 

Mind the scourge.........depression

A news story appeared in telegraph India on 'state of depression in India'
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110814/jsp/7days/story_14377288.jsp

“Whatever be the symptoms, it’s possible to treat depression by simply bringing the levels of a brain chemical — serotonin — back to normal,” says Dr Om Prakash, associate professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi, who treated Gupta.

The treatment is not expensive either. The most commonly used antidepressant — fluoxetine — costs just a few rupees, says Dr Prakash.

 

 In the smaller states there may be just one or two psychiatrists, adds Dr Prakash. For example, while Uttarakhand has one psychiatrist, Sikkim, which has the highest suicide rate in the country, has two. Even a relatively big state like Orissa has just six psychiatrists — four in Bhubaneswar and two in Cuttack.

 

Psychiatrists also feel that general practitioners should be sensitised about psychiatric disorders. “I fail to understand why a GP — who is comfortable with prescribing drugs for hypertension or diabetes or even cardiovascular diseases — does not prescribe medicines for depression,” says Dr Prakash.

Indeed, more often than not, when a person suffering from depression goes to a GP, he or she is given multi-vitamin pills or iron tonics to “take care of the lethargy or low energy”. What they fail to understand is these are physical manifestations of a mental problem, says Dr Prakash, and unless the root cause is addressed they will never go away.

When dementia caregivers are to be cared for

When caregivers are to be cared for A news story appeared in Times of India, Bangalore edition

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-08-10/bangalore/27941598_1_dementia-related-disorders-society-14th-national-conference

"If there is a dementia patient at home, then it's not one patient but two patients at home since more than onethird of the dementia care givers suffer from emotional stress and 30% of them are affected by depression."
Regular counselling, attending support group meeting and by enjoying life, instead of worrying about the disease can help them cope with the problem , suggested Dr Om Prakash, consultant of adult and geriatric psychiatry

Indian wives bring sex out of closet- interesting findings

Indian wives bring sex out of closet


http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=41487

SOURAV SANYAL

Posted: Feb 02, 2005 at 1158 hrs IST

Sex and the Indian woman. There no stopping her now... A study on female sexuality by Chandigarh-based PGI’s psychiatry department has shown that Indian women seem to be discarding conventionally repressive standards of sexual behaviour for a more fulfilling marital life.

The findings, to be forwarded to the US-based Archives of Sexual Behaviour for publication, revealed that 66 pc of respondents admitted to pleasure from sexual experience while an astounding 95 pc said both partners were satisfied with sex lives. Conducted by doctors at PGI last year, the study covered hundreds of married women — mostly in the lower income bracket — in the 20-40 age bracket who had been married and staying continuously with spouses for the last three months; the department had obtained informed consent from them. The sample comprised mainly housewives (84 pc) followed by professionals (nine per cent), clerks (four per cent) and students (three per cent) with the majority having a family income of less than Rs 6,000. All subjects had heterosexual orientation. A majority of respondents (62 pc), with significantly higher sexual knowledge and attitude, were able to communicate sexual desires to their partners. Those who denied any anxiety or inhibition while performing sex and those (58 pc) who initiated the act had significantly better sex knowledge. The Indian woman is no longer hidden behind the purdah,’’ said Dr Jhirwal. Explaining the need for the study, Jhirwal, one of the investigators, said: ‘‘Female sexual health is often considered a taboo in Indian families. Scientific research on sexuality in India is almost exclusively focused on male sex disorders. There is a need to develop insight into female sexual functioning.’’ The study also examined the relationship of sexual knowledge and attitudes with sexual functioning with an aim to identify disorders. It was conducted using the ‘Brief Index of Sexual Functioning for Women’ which assesses areas such as frequency of sexual behaviour, fantasy, masturbation, satisfaction, preferences, anxiety, performance difficulties and the oft-quoted ‘Sex Knowledge and Attitude Questionnaire’. An overwhelming 96 pc of the subjects considered sex an important aspect of life. While vaginal intercourse was the desired sexual behaviour for 56 pc women, 47 pc desired kissing, 42 pc foreplay, 29 pc mutual masturbation and seven per cent oral sex. Orgasmic pleasure was perceived from intercourse in 84 pc cases while 15 pc experienced it during foreplay as compared to 11 per cent who enjoyed it during mutual masturbation.

Examination stress and children...........

A news story appeared in Hindustan daily on 'examination stress'
http://www.livehindustan.com/news/edu/news/article1-board-exams-269-269-313268.html

किताब खोलते ही नींद आना बन रहा मुसीबत

इंस्टीटय़ूट ऑफ हृयुमन बिहेव्यिर एंड एलायड साइंस के मनोचिकित्सक डॉ. ओमप्रकाश कहते हैं कि सही मायने में देखा जाए तो परीक्षा के लिए साल भर मेहनत जरूरी है।

तनाव की समस्या लेकर आने वाले अधिकांश छात्र ऐसे होते हैं जिन्होंने समय पर पाठय़क्रम पूरा नहीं किया या फिर जो पढ़ाई में पीछे रह गए। हालांकि 20 प्रतिशत बच्चे ऐसे भी हैं तो बेहतर प्रदर्शन को लेकर आश्वस्त हैं, लेकिन वह टॉप कैसे करें। बच्चों के साथ ही परीक्षा के लिए अभिभावकों की काउंसलिंग भी जरूरी है।