Best Psychiatrists in Nepal:
Who is a Psychiatrist?
Psychiatry is the branch of science that studies the mind and its behaviour. A Psychiatrist is a medical professional who specializes in Psychiatry and Mental Health. Psychiatrists help to find factors such as the social and biological influences that cause a person’s thoughts and actions. Negative thoughts could hamper a person’s daily activities and relationships. Psychiatrists help patients to overcome mental difficulties with various scientific techniques and methodologies.
At our Mental Health Clinic, we have one of the best Neuro Psychiatrists in Nepal catering to our patient’s mental health and needs.
When stress becomes overwhelming and prolonged, the risk for mental health problems and medical problems increase. Long term stress increases the risk of Mental Health problems.
Major mental health problems include-
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Substance use problems (Addiction)
- Sleep problems and
- Other bodily complaints such as muscle tension and headaches.
Anxiety disorder myth and fact
There are hundreds of emotions humans can experience, and not all work in the same way.
Timely intervention and management of these mental health issues help people have a normal life and also improve their quality of life.
Thus, if you are looking for the best services of Psychiatry, this Mental Health Clinic is the best place around Lalitpur for assessment and management of all kinds of Mental Health issues. Dr Kenison Shrestha is one of the best psychiatrists in Nepal, who is young and dedicated to the patients’.
Dr. Kenison Shrestha, Psychiatrist – Mental Health Clinic
When should you see a Psychiatrist?
- When you have stress and anxiety due to various reasons. Psychiatrists are trained to find the cause and answer to your stress and anxiety.
- Feeling of helplessness and hopelessness can cause depression. Depression is treatable.
- Phobia is a condition when people have an irrational fear about anything. The phobias can be more specific. The common phobias can be of height, being to crowded spaces, blood, water, animals. These are termed as acrophobia, claustrophobia, hemophobia, hydrophobia, zoophobia. These phobias could make normal activities difficult to perform.
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a clinical disorder in which patient has intrusive thoughts, images, ideas (obsession) which is recurrent that makes them feel driven to do something repeatedly (compulsion).
- Unwanted and harmful habits such as drug addiction, chewing tobacco, smoking, alcohol abuse. These addiction is one of the major problem in our society in these days. Psychiatrist helps in quitting these substances and motivate for quality of life.
- Bipolar disorder is a mental illness when a patient has severe mood changes with episodes of high (mania) and lows (depression) emotions. Both of these symptoms are experienced by person in a lifetime.
- Schizophrenia is a mental illness whose symptoms range from delusion, hallucination, lack of social connection, violent behaviors, etc.
- PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental illness when a patient has a feeling of imminent danger such as earthquakes, violence.
- Major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression, is a feeling of sadness and grief due to various reasons.
- Sleeping disorders/ Insomnia is one of the symptoms that appear in people with mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, psychosis, etc.
- Dementia is the condition in which there is impaired ability to remember, think or make decisions that interferes with doing daily activities. Most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease.
- Delirium is abrupt condition in the brain that causes mental confusion. Symptoms includes visual hallucination, altered sleep wake cycle, hyperactivity, sun-downing phenomenon.
- Somatic symptom disorder or somatoform disorder is the condition in which a person has significant focus in physical symptoms such as burning sensation limbs, body, shortness of breathe, to a level that results in major distress and / or problems functioning.
- Sexual dysfunction: Persistent, recurrent problems with sexual response, desire, orgasm that stress you or strain your relationship.
- Family and personal relationships and quality of life are most affected in patients with mental disorders.
- Early diagnosis and management of mental disorders help in improving quality of life and confidence building
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