what is hermitage psychiatry?
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Think of it as a holistic medicine psychologist.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is based on a bio-social theory of borderline personality disorder. Linehan hypothesises that the disorder is a consequence of an emotionally vulnerable individual growing up within a particular set of environmental circumstances which she refers to as the 'Invalidating Environment'.\n\nFor Details:\n\nhttp://www.priory.com/dbt.htm\n\nMay be this is what u looking for.
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Because they don't recognize the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist. \n\nA psychiatrist is a medical doctor. He/she treats brain injuries, chemical dysfunctions, genetic anomalies of the brain. He/she can precribe medicine for brain disorders. Many have surgical certification and can operate on the brain to alleviate or remove the underlying physical cause of the mental dysfunction.\n\nA psychologist treats the effects of mental disease, the symptoms that don't seem to have a physical, biological cause. The neuroses, the anxieties, etc that plague so many people. This treatment can take years and years and lots and lots of your money.\n\nThe latter therapy is something Scientology would rather you take to them, as they want all that lovely money for themselves.
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psychiatrist is a doctor and can give medicine\na psychologist is a counselor and can only talk to you
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a Tamil psychiatrist or psychologist is difficult but you could try to find an interpretter, good luck
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Yeah, have heard of this before, believe it or not.\n\nThe word you're looking for is co-dependency.\n\nIt isn't an official mental illness, though, it's more of a bastardized mental illness that the psychiatric community gave up researching and studying because they just couldn't find out what caused it, which explains why there is no knowledge of it in our society, and people who have it like this man are instead called "lazy" or "mama's boys".\n\nMy uncles and other people in my own family have had this illness and it is for real.\n\nLike I said, the roots of it are very complex and it is hard to treat, but treatment for it has to start with psychiatric counselling for a long time, and possibly anti-anxiety medications as well.\n\nFor men like this one, it is almost always a result of not having a father or other man in their lives to teach them to be strong and independent for themselves, so they never learn the skills they need to cope and just rely on someone else to take care of them, almost always their mother.\n\nAll I can say as to what help this man should get is to find a good psychiatrist or psychologist, or to find a support group for people with low-grade or unspecific mental illnesses in the phone book or on the web, and more importantly pray for him, and get his brother or mom to find a priest or pastor for him to talk to and confide in as well.
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When looking into the PAST for treatment of ANY psychiatric illnesses, you won't find much. \n\nHistorically, the treatments for Bi-polar or any other psychiatric disorder included:\n1. Sanitariums. Locking people up for life without treatment of any kind. If you go back far enough you will find the "Ship of Fools". This was essentially a floating sanitarium where different towns and cities would park their "crazy" people and condemn them to a life of drifting from one port to another.\n\n2. Lobotomies. A lobotomy is a surgical procedure that consists of cutting the connections to and from, or simply destroying, the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes. The use of the lobotomy was still in effect until the early 1970s!!! The use of the lobotomy was horribly abused over the years as a means of controlling specific people or populations. Read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Glass Menagerie" for some interesting accounts.\n\n3. Thorazine. This drug became widely used in the 70's and is still used today. It is the chemical equivalent of a lobotomy. The phrase the "Thorazine Shuffle" came to describe the movements of patients taking the drug. Thorazine would so heavily sedate all of the brains functions so that a person on large doses could do little more than shuffle their feet and mumble their words.\n\n4. Electro-Convulsive Therapy, Insulin shock therapy and malarial therapy. All of these were used to induce seizures in the hopes of creating a "reset" button for the brain.\n\n5. Lithium came into use as a treatment for bi-polar in the 1960's and was a welcome change to the treatments listed here. Though Lithium is toxic, when administered and monitored properly has been very successful in treating bi-polar disorder.\n\nCurrently, new drugs are being discovered that treat bi-polar without the toxic side effects of Lithium. It's all trial and error since no one knows how or why Lithium or any current drugs work in terms of treating bi-polar. They just know it does.
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My name is Lacey and I am a psychiatrist and a therapist. I practice other things such as; psychology and medicine. I earned my PHD from Yale in 2003. I specialize in couple/marriage therapy and child Psychiatry. Any questions you have I can try to answer.\n\nNeed I say I am a psychiatrist I work in the field of mental health.
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"Avoidant Personality Disorder" is a psych term used to categorise a number of behavioural traits Psychiatry considers improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a "mental illness", and promote it as a "disease" that requires "treatment".\n\nIf one considers certain traits to be problematic, relating to shyness or low self-worth and self-esteem, then there are variety of options one can consider without accepting Psychiatry's BS that one has a "mental illness", that one is "ill" and that one should reach for so-called "medication" as a so-called solution.\n \nIt's great, then, that you wish to stay clear of Psychiatry. I would, however, consider dropping use of the term "Avoidant Personality Disorder", as that is an invented psychiatric label that has no substance in science whatsoever.\n\nThere are a number of things you can try to handle your issues. Some work better than others, granted, but it is well worth doing as much investigation as possible before deciding on which path to take.\n\nI had similar issues to what psychs deem "APD", but I handled them swiftly by joining a self-help program and overcoming these barriers through courses and counselling. Amazing stuff. \n\nOther things could include meditation programs, yoga, martial arts, etc. But there are so many different things out there you will certainly need to research them yourself and form your own opinion.\n\nGood luck in your journey!\n\nMike\n\n--\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters\nDecoding Psychiatric Propaganda
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OK, so it's a mood disorder and a serious mental illness. It has a strong genetic component, but appears to be triggered environmentally. There are no diagnostic tests for it, just psychiatric evaluation. Most sufferers are not diagnosed until middle age, and it takes an average of around 8-10 years to get a correct diagnosis. Historically, figures suggested it affects about 0.8% of the population at some point, which makes it about half as common as schizophrenia. In recent years, bipolar disorder has become an 'in' diagnosis, and many more people are being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. As with ADHD, this fad may well pass with time, although for the moment many celebrities appear to be 'popularising' it.\n\nIt is characterised by episodes of severe clinical depression and mania or hypomania (for definitions of those, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_diagnostic_criteria_for_bipolar_disorder ). The extreme end of mania often turns into psychosis, complete with hallucinations and delusions. During manic phases, the person's judgement and perception of reality is severely compromised, leading to risky actions with potentially damaging consequences (financially, sexually and relationship-wise). Untreated, episodes generally worsen over time due to an effect known as kindling. Untreated Bipolar sufferers are at a very high risk of suicide: 20-25% attempt it, and 15% succeed.\n\nThe cycles in bipolar disorder are much longer than people generally believe. Anyone whose mood changes from minute to minute is very unlikely to be bipolar. Bipolar 1 is characterised by mood episodes lasting many months, while Bipolar 2 has episodes in the region of weeks to months. Rapid and ultra-rapid cycling bipolar disorder is rare, and cycles last days to weeks.\n\nThere are many drugs available to treat the symptoms of bipolar (there is no cure). These are either anti-convulsants or anti-psychotics (personally I take both), and the most well known of these is Lithium. Most patients will go through a number of different drugs before finding one that works for them.
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This is a question for a psychiatrist...NOT Yahoo answer!
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Bleuler, Eugen (oi'gən bloi' lər) , 1857–1939, Swiss psychiatrist. He taught (1898–1927) at the Univ. of Zürich, serving concurrently as director of Zürich's Burghölzi Asylum. Bleuler is well-known for his introduction (1908) of the term schizophrenia, formerly known as dementia praecox, and for his studies with schizophrenic patients. He concluded that the disease was not one of dementia, a condition involving organic deterioration of the brain, but one that consisted of a disharmonious state of mind in which contradictory tendencies exist together. His work was significant in its suggestion that psychological disturbances could be at the root of psychosis, and for his unprecedented belief that such patients were not incurable. A follower of Sigmund Freud and associate of Carl Jung, Bleuler was a long time member of Freud's Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. His son, Manfred Bleuler, conducted important follow-up studies in the Burghölzi hospital made famous by his father, and summarized these in _The Schizophrenic Disorders_ (1978).
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Mental asylum.\nA better class of people!
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OK, so it's a mood disorder and a serious mental illness. It has a strong genetic component, but appears to be triggered environmentally. There are no diagnostic tests for it, just psychiatric evaluation. Most sufferers are not diagnosed until middle age, and it takes an average of around 8-10 years to get a correct diagnosis. Historically, figures suggested it affects about 0.8% of the population at some point, which makes it about half as common as schizophrenia. In recent years, bipolar disorder has become an 'in' diagnosis, and many more people are being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. As with ADHD, this fad may well pass with time, although for the moment many celebrities appear to be 'popularising' it.\n\nIt is characterised by episodes of severe clinical depression and mania or hypomania (for definitions of those, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_diagnostic_criteria_for_bipolar_disorder ). The extreme end of mania often turns into psychosis, complete with hallucinations and delusions. During manic phases, the person's judgement and perception of reality is severely compromised, leading to risky actions with potentially damaging consequences (financially, sexually and relationship-wise). Untreated, episodes generally worsen over time due to an effect known as kindling. Untreated Bipolar sufferers are at a very high risk of suicide: 20-25% attempt it, and 15% succeed.\n\nThe cycles in bipolar disorder are much longer than people generally believe. Anyone whose mood changes from minute to minute is very unlikely to be bipolar. Bipolar 1 is characterised by mood episodes lasting many months, while Bipolar 2 has episodes in the region of weeks to months. Rapid and ultra-rapid cycling bipolar disorder is rare, and cycles last days to weeks.\n\nThere are many drugs available to treat the symptoms of bipolar (there is no cure). These are either anti-convulsants or anti-psychotics (personally I take both), and the most well known of these is Lithium. Most patients will go through a number of different drugs before finding one that works for them.\n\nBipolar comes in three main flavors - Bipolar 1 and 2, mentioned above, and Cyclothymia (sort of a 'bipolar lite' and usually notr requiring meds).\n\nIt will wreck relationships, for sure, because at best the sufferer is  unpredictable and at worst screwing everything in sight in a manic hypersexual episode.
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They are treated with psychotherapy and psychiatric medications.
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While all physicians will encounter patients with mental illnesses and any of them may treat it, psychiatrists specialize in these areas. They are more extensively trained in the differential diagnosis (the distinguishing of various forms) and treatment of mental illness. Given the advantage of the preliminary medical training as well as further specialist training, psychiatry when practiced properly offers a truly holistic approach to patient care. Many other professionals also provide mental health care, such as psychologists, nurse practitioners, counselors, physician assistants, and social workers. In general only doctors, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants may prescribe mental health medication in the United States[1]. In some countries, mental health medication may only be prescribed by medical doctors.
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Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations. Although the disorder is primarily thought to affect cognition, it can also contribute to chronic problems with behavior and emotion. Due to the many possible combinations of symptoms, there is ongoing and heated debate about whether the diagnosis necessarily or adequately describes a disorder, or alternatively whether it might represent a number of disorders. For this reason, Eugen Bleuler deliberately called the disease "the schizophrenias", plural, when he coined the present name.