Dr Kishor M, JSSMC, JSSAHER, Mysur Karnataka Volume 13 Issues 2 February, 2023 In the peak of CoVID19 pandemic in India, in all hospitals, numerous protocols were enforced. Some glimpses can be seen in many hospitals even today . One of the major aspect of CoVID19 protocol was distance between two individuals and the masks. […]
EDITORIALS
Internet role-play games and their psychiatric implications
Editorial Volume 13 Issues 1 January, 2023 The video games were quickly embraced by the public right after their advent in 1972 by Magnavox Odyssey (1). The advent of the Internet in 1983 significantly further boost the advancement, from the previous version of hardware platform-based (PlayStation, Xbox, Nvida Shield) to current RPGs and MMORPGs. Soon, […]
Shall we “Let it go”
From the desk of Editor Volume 12 Issues 12 December, 2022 End of a long year, Bye 2022…..Everyone have gained a lot from this year, at the same time we had to lose some inevitably. It is always an ongoing process to bid farewell to the losses and accept the changes. Many of us have […]
Management of the wandering mentally-ill roadside destitute
Dr Bharat Vatwani Volume 12 Issues 11 November, 2022 Continuation of the article publishes in previous issue i.e. Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2022 …. A wandering, mentally ill destitute poses a different set of complex psychiatric and medical problems requiring other skills for successful solutions. Medical Challenges Post Rescue: The destitute go through extremes […]
Stigma and Empathy – inverse correlates in the wandering mentally-ill
From the desk of Editor: Guest Editorial by Dr Bharat Vatwani Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Mental Illness carries a stigma – either Social Stigma or Self Stigma. Stigma causes mentally-ill people to feel ashamed for something that is, in reality, out of their control. There is exclusion, poor social support, isolation, loneliness and low self-esteem. […]
Taking psychiatry to medical students
From the desk of Editor: Guest Editorial by Dr Vinay Lakra Volume 12 Issues 9 September, 2022 During my medical training in mid 90s there was limited exposure to psychiatry as a speciality. Initially I wanted to be a surgeon and psychiatry was nowhere in my mind as a career. Many things happened, some by […]
“Oh, the thrill of rejecting papers after papers!” How medical journal editors work
Guest Editorial Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Many students and young faculty members regard medical journal editors villains: They compile boring, unreadable stuff and statistics into overpriced issues, heartlessly reject your works of love and hard labor with flimsy excuses, and then fill the journal pages with articles of their own or their cronies, […]
What can suicide prevention learn from Rose’s population strategy of prevention?
Guest Editorial Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 Geoffrey Rose’s 1985 paper, Sick individuals, and sick populations drew a distinction between the causes of illness at the individual level and the population level(1). Health care typically focuses on individuals presenting with symptoms of illness, or screening for individuals at high risk of some adverse health […]
Early exposure to smart technology- challenges of a new developmental paradigm in children
From the desk of Editor Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022 The advances in the use of smart technology and gadgets have seen a giant leap in recent years. Every year new smartphones and computer devices keep storming the market and they have become an indispensable part of our daily life. Although it has made […]
Work-life balance and mental health
From the desk of Editor Volume 12 Issues 4 April, 2022 As we all know it today, the world has transformed into an arena where people are constantly in a fierce competition to excel in every given opportunity. Right from birth, each of us is running a race at various stages of our life to […]