How Can You Reduce Stress In Your Life?

Stress is a feeling that is caused by being under extreme pressure. This pressure that we experience can come from different aspects of our routine life. It includes increase in the workload, an argument with the loved ones, or existing financial issues. By being surrounded in those stressful situations, you may feel upset or threatened that would affect you in both physical and emotional ways. According to psychiatrist in Bhopal – Dr. Satyakant Trivedi, this can further lead to change in the behavior patterns and you would also experience more intense stress emotions.

What are the signs of stress?

Each and everyone experience stress some or the other time. However, whenever you notice that it’s affecting your mental health and wellbeing, then it becomes equally important to tackle it as early as possible. The signs of stress are as follows:

·         Constant feelings of worry or anxiety

·         Feeling of being overwhelmed

·         Difficulty in concentrating on something

·         Mood swings

·         Irritability

·         Having a short temper

·         Difficulty in relaxing

·         Depression

·         Low self-esteem

·         Eating more or less

·         Changes in the sleeping patterns

·         Using alcohol, tobacco or drugs to relax

·         Aches and pains

·         Diarrhea and constipation

·         Feelings of dizziness

If you have been experiencing these types of signs for a longer period of time, and you feel that it’s affecting your routine life, then you must consult psychiatrist in Bhopal.

What to do when you feel stressed?

1.      Realize when it is interfering in your life:

·         Try to find the connections between feeling tired and the pressure that you’ve been facing.

·         Find out if there are some physical issues such as over-tiredness, headaches or migraines

2.      Identify the causes:

·         Try to identify the underlying causes

·         Sort out the causes of your stress into the categories like what you can do for it and what you can’t and act accordingly

·         Start to release the worries or tension of what you can’t do anything.

3. Review your lifestyle:

·         Is it important for you to take too much of stress?

·         Are there things which are overburdening you, can be handed over to someone else?

·         For answering these questions, you need to prioritize the situations you’ve been trying to achieve. This will also help you in re-organizing your life.

·         This will further help you in getting rid of the stress that would be coming from trying to do everything at once.

Why do people experience OCD

What is OCD?

According to Dr. Satyakant Trivedi, an award-winning psychiatrist in Bhopal, OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a condition in which people experience unwanted thoughts, feelings, compulsions and fears. These are referred to as Obsessions that can make people feel anxious. So as to get relief from the obsessions and anxiety, OCD temps people to perform certain behaviors called Compulsions or Rituals. 

What are Obsessions?

Obsessions are certain fears that people experiencing OCD can’t stop to think about. Although they realize that their obsessions don’t make sense but still they’re anxious about certain things.

·         The fears that make them anxious are:

·         Fear of hurting someone till death.

·         Fear of saying a bad word, having a bad thought or making a mistake

·         Fear of breaking up a rule or they’re being sinned

·         Fear of something is dirty or germy

·         Fear of unlucky or lucky, good or bad, harmful or safe

What are compulsions?

Compulsions are behaviors that people with OCD do in a repeated manner. This causes them to feel or make sure that things are clean, safe, in perfect order or just right. It causes them to repeat things and thus, it becomes vital for them to seek OCD treatment in Bhopal. To people with OCD, the compulsions seem to have the power to prevent bad things from coming.

The rituals happen such as:

·         Washing and cleaning

·         Re-writing, re-doing and re-reading things to ensure it’s correct

·         Repeating a question or phrase for more times

·         Going out and in several times in a day

·         Counting things a number of times

·         Avoiding unlucky numbers

·         Putting things in a specific order

·         Ensuring that lights are off, doors are locked and checking of the things

Why do people experience OCD?

Scientists don’t have found out proper reasons for getting OCD but it’s sure that biological factors play an important role. People may get OCD because it would be in their genes. There would be difference in the rituals or compulsion.

How is OCD treated?

OCD can be treated with medicine and therapy. OCD treatment in Bhopal includes CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy such as talk and does therapy, understanding how these rituals and compulsions can affect life. This way they can learn how to ignore the obsession, rituals and compulsions and cope up with them.

Tips to Cope with Substance Abuse Disorder

Substance abuse can sneak into your life right under your nose. You will not even realize this that you are using a substance like alcohol or drugs. In fact, most of the people come in contact with substances and then develop SUD or Substance Abuse Disorder. 

Does someone in your family is suffering from Substance Abuse Disorder?

It doesn’t matter how large or small your family is, Substance Abuse Disorder can have a negative impact on the balance and overall health of an individual. Also, it can harm other family member’s mental health. Thus, it is important for one to take into consideration the signs and symptoms of SUD and take certain action such as visiting psychiatrist in Bhopal to eliminate or minimize the signs of SUD.

If you are unsure of the signs and symptoms of SUD, then here’s the list which will help you in identifying whether you’re partner or anyone in the family is suffering from SUD or not:      

 

• If a person follows certain prescribed medications even though they aren’t suffering from any mental health problem.

• Using any particular type of substance so as to feel the same kind of effect on the mind and body.

• Taking more than the advised dosage of the medications.

• Feeling uneasy when they are not being provided with alcohol or drug.

• Can’t stop to the usage of substances.

• Making excuse to use the drugs or other substances.

• Loss in the interest of other activities that they enjoyed ones other than the usage of substances.

• Borrowing money for buying more of the substances.

• Experiencing more of the mood swings.

• Changes in the physical appearance.

How to help your loved one from getting over with the substance abuse?     

      

If you or someone from your family is suffering from SUD, then it should be noted that a number of studies have cleared out the fact that counselling sessions and therapies can help. Consulting a psychiatrist in Bhopal is one of the best ways of reversing the damage of substance. With the help of counseling and other therapies, the family members can easily notice the changes in the behavior of the person. There are a number of therapies that are used for reversing the damage of substance such as couples counseling, one-on-one talk sessions or group therapy as a family.