Depression

when we talked about depression, it seems that a lot of people will admit that they have depression. So, it's important that those who are in the medical professions would be able to recognize all the signs and symptoms of depression in order to manage the case appropriately and not to misdiagnose the case.

Those who are having depression maybe having social isolation, depressed mood and etc. And, they are more prone to tendency of performing self-harm/mutilation or attempting suicide. Thus, they should be watched out properly by their friends and family members.

Schizophrenia

Today we had a discussion on schizophrenia, a psychiatric disease which occupy a large population of the world today..

Schizo-"splitting", thus a mismonomer of splitting of mind came about on schizophrenia. It's actually a disease with unknown causes(genetic, biochemical changes in brain etc) whereby it affect the three main functions of the brain= thinking, emotion and behaviour. Thus, schizophrenic patient can sometime cause a lot of chaos in daily life without they themselves knowing it. They manifested mainly via positive and negative symptoms Those positive symptoms will include various way of *delusions and hallucination. Whereas in negative symptoms, they will usually have *blunted affect, avolition, alogia, anhedonia and asociality.

However, the disease itself is manageable by medications which include all the antipsychotics(typical-haloperidol/chlorpromazine or atypical-clozapine/risperidone). And, most importantly they can get back to their normal daily functions with compliance to their medications.



* Delusions- belief firmly held in spite of evidence of the contrary and not in keeping with the person's education, social and cultural background.

Hallucinations- perception of something without any external stimulus.

Avolition- lack of drive and motive


Alogia- reduced content in speech


Affect- blunted(no change in facial expression)

Saturday

Weekend is probably the day most people enjoyed most as they do not need to work or study during the weekend. Definitely, it also a time for everyone to actually relax themselves and also spending time with their family.

i have not much things to do this saturday and sunday except to actually organize up my thoughts and also study about psychiatry. It's not an easy job as i was thinking about before i myself is currently in psychiatric posting whereby there are a lot of stuffs to read on each psychiatric disorder.

Basically, i am too lazy to read about those thick book. i Have no other alternative rather than to actually just read the psychiatric book written by First Aids and Kaplan Handbook(also quite thick even it's a handbook).

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

It was a very interesting day today as we learn more about child psychiatric illness especially on Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity disorders. It commonly been noticed before the age of 8 after kindergarten start and it can give up all the spectrums of the disease ranging from hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity of a child.

Hyperactivity- the child wouldn't be able to sit still and will continue running and jumping around despite being scolded by the parents.

Inattention - the child wouldn't be able to focus or remember what have been said neither do they performed well academically.

Impulsitivity - Child have an sudden aggressiveness such as pushing the other children suddenly and throw tantrums easily on small matter.

However, a normal child might be showing off all the behaviors above; so it's only when all the behavior above actually affecting the function of the child in their learning or speech only then we consider giving treatment to the children.