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Coping with dissociative identity disorder

How is it really like to live with dissociative personality disorders. Mr A[1] says, “It frustrates me when people try to tell me my alters aren’t real. Even if they’re just trying to make me feel better, I end up

Education

Dissociative Identity Disorder in Children

Reena was 6 years old the first time she came to therapy. Her father and stepmother thought she should see a therapist because Reena had recently begun complaining about nightmares and severe body pain (with no physical injury) and had

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Is cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT) effective for the treatment of Dissociative identity disorder(DID)???

Dissociative identity disorder is a mental disease that involves disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, and perception”. DSM-5 has defines DID as “a disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states or an experience of possession

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as the occurrence of unwanted and intrusive obsessive thoughts or distressing images. These are usually accompanied by compulsive behaviours performed to undo thoughts or images. In the context of DSM-5, obsessions involve recurrent and persistent

Awareness

Conduct Disorder: An Overview

Tara, a four year old, was yelling & screaming and interrupting everyone at dinner table. As her mother scolded her, she picked up the serving spoon and threw it at her mother with all force and hit her- Everyone was

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Understanding how the weather affects our mood

Ever felt angrier than usual when the temperature soars? Or perhaps gloomy when the sky was pouring down? There are countless articles available in the research field which point toward a strong role of the weather in influencing our mood.

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Emotional intimacy with parents and conduct disorder

Whether children do something good or bad, mostly parents are credited to their actions. Therefore, raising a child not only involves feeding the child and giving financial support but also requires emotional intimacy from the parents because how a child

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

AUTISM is neither a puzzle nor a disease. Autism is a challenge but certainly not a devastating one. Autistic children may not fit into your box of thoughts but they can help you realize that there is ‘NO BOX’. It

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Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a very commonly recognized personality disorder. Someone who has BPD will be a lot different from an average person in terms of what they feel, what they relate, what they perceive and what they think. The