Volume 5 Issue 9 September, 2015 Reaching out to those at risk of suicide In 2014 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reported 1,31,666 suicides in India with suicide rate of 10.6 per lakh population. We are losing 15 precious lives in every hour, meaning one life in every 4 minutes. It is hard to imagine […]
EDITORIALS
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Volume 5 Issue 8 August 2015 Dear readers,On 27th July 2015 we have lost our great teacher and visionary leader, who has given us ‘wings of fire’ and ‘ignited our minds’. His work, guidance, quotes, and books will always remain true source of inspiration for all of us. I am sharing his exclusive contribution for […]
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Volume 5 Issue 7 July 2015 Positive Psychology: Scientific Explorations of Human Strengths “What is wrong with the people?” question guided the thinking of most mental health professionals till the last decade. Now 21st century unfolds another question, “What is right about people?” It is the heart of positive psychology, which is the scientific and […]
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Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2015 The future of Psychiatry!! And the future of MINDS!! Undoubtedly the future of Psychiatry is in the training of undergraduates and it is there the diverse strategies, enthusiastic teachers, unified departments, supportive colleagues & institutions play the most important role. Everything else is but an added support in that […]
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Volume 5 Issue 5 May 2015 VIOLENCE: IS IT JUSTIFIED? Recently we have witnessed various incidences of violence against medical professionals all over country. Such news reached a hype in media followed by discussion if the violence was justified and who went wrong whether the doctor or common people. All said and done, we need […]
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Volume 5 Issue 4 Apr 2015 TIME MANAGEMENT Friends, we often talk about not having enough time. Many of us land up in procrastinating simple tasks rather than doing it in time. Failure to manage time is frustrating and annoying as we fail to delegate time to important things and wind it up in emergency […]
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Volume 5 Issue 3 Mar 2015 Neurology & Psychiatry: Is East is East and West is West? Friends, neurology & psychiatry have evolved as two different specialties over a period of time with neurology dealing with the structural aspect & psychiatry dealing with functions of the mind. However, in clinical practice, a significant overlap of […]
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Volume 5 Issue 2 Feb 2015 Building Compliance: An Important Skill Everyone of us, as health care provider, wish our patients to be ‘compliant’ with us. Any patient showing resistance to therapeutic advice is viewed as a great challenge & is criticized for.. Compliance (also adherence, capacitance) describes the degree to which a patient correctly […]
From The Desk of the Editor: MINDS Team Wish All Readers & Well-wishers a very
Happy, Prosperous & Successful New Year 2015!
Volume 5 Issue 13 Jan 2015 Ideal Mental Health- An Oasis?!! Mental health (psychological well-being), is the “psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment”. Can one conclude oneself to have an ideal mental health? Ideal mental health is truly a dynamic process which can be defined […]
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Volume 4 Issue 12 Dec 2014 A combination of the words “Internet” and “citizen”, which may be used to describe an individual who spends a lot of time on the net. Over many years, society have observed a transformation of citizens to Netizens for obvious reasons like, easy accessibility, easy socialization (even though pseudosocialization), easy […]