PSYCHIATRICS

Overview

Recharge. Reset. Reclaim Mental Health At Apollo Sage Hospitals, Bhopal

Persisting or recurring mental health issues could be quite debilitating – both mentally and sometimes even physically. And the first person who could cater to mental health issues is none other than the psychiatrist at Apollo Sage Hospitals, Bhopal.
The psychiatric department at the hospital is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental health with the best knowledge and equipment available across the globe.
Why Choose Us?
The specialized Psychiatry Department at Apollo Sage Hospitals, Bhopal not only provide medication and therapies to people with mental health issues and their families but also handholds and supports them to develop and maintain personal, family, and social relations and cope with the issue. 
The department has a specialized team of Mental Health Nurses who are also trained to provide treatment in the form of psychotherapy. These nurses also provide case-management services and serve as patient advocates if required.
Our Team
The psychiatry department at the Apollo Sage Hospitals, Bhopal is a trained professional to differentiate between mental health problems and other underlying medical conditions. The team of professionals also monitors the effects of mental illness on other physical conditions such as the heart, kidney, and liver functioning and high blood pressure and the effects of medicines on the body, including observing the patient's sleep pattern, weight, and so on.
Often psychiatrists work in association with Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatric Social Workers, or other medical doctors.

Facilities

The psychiatry department at Apollo Sage Hospitals in Bhopal is competent to deal with the different types of mental disorders involving significant disturbances in thinking, emotional regulation, or behavior. 
Additionally, the department provides support for educational programs, housing, and participation in other meaningful activities.

Disease & Conditions

• Addiction: This refers to a condition in which the person may have disorders related to legal or illegal addiction. The person could be addicted to drugs, gambling, sex, food, games, or even other Impulse Control Disorders (ICD). ICD is basically a disorder in which the person finds it really difficult to resist a temptation or think twice before committing an act. These could include, internet addiction, compulsive shopping, the urge to start fires, shoplifting or Kleptomania and so on.
• Anxiety: The range of Anxiety could vary from person to person and include excessive fear, worry and similar behavioural disturbances. While some may experience Situational Anxiety triggered by common things such as examination, the first day at a new job and unexpected expenses, others may suffer from frequent and excessive anxiety, panic attacks, and terror and these could adversely affect the quality of life of the patient.
• Depression: It is a common and serious medical mental illness which deals with a major mood disorder in the affected person. The disorder causes persistent feelings of emptiness, irritability, sadness and loss of pleasure, interest or positivity in life. The person may also suffer from poor concentration, feelings of guilt, thoughts about death, death in general or suicide and more. 
• Bipolar Disorder: People with this disorder are at an increased risk of suicide. The symptoms include irritability, hyperactivity, talkativeness, increased self-esteem, sleep loss, impulsive and reckless behaviour and so on. 
• Schizophrenia: Those suffering from Schizophrenia seem to be away from reality and in their own world which could be distressing for them as well as their family. This is so because this serious mental disorder makes the person interpret reality abnormally or as we can say react (sometimes violently) to their hallucinations and delusions. These patients may sometimes also have trouble organizing their thoughts and speech and may hop from one topic to another. Sometimes they may also coin words that may have no meaning and may sometimes have movement disorders in which they may exhibit abnormal body movements and even repeat certain motions again and again.
• Neuro-Developmental Disorder: These include disorders of intellectual development such as Autism spectrum, Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and are best handled by Neuropsychiatrist at the hospital. These disorders have limited intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour and have a direct negative impact on the patient’s academic, occupational or social functioning. These disorders affect the conceptual, social and practical skills of the person. 
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): This is witnessed in people who have experienced shock, scary or dangerous events. Those suffering from it may get easily upset or angry, show signs of extreme alertness, disturbed sleep patterns and so on. And this is where the mental health expert helps people overcome post-traumatic stress disorders.

Diagnostics

• Rorschach Inkblot Test: The test is used to gain information about the patient’s personality, emotional functioning, thinking patterns, and so on. The test is a type of projective assessment in which mental health doctors provide the patient (likely schizophrenic patients) with 10 ambiguous inkblot images which reveal the patient’s unconscious thoughts, thinking patterns, motives, desires, and more. The psychiatrist then interprets the answers and reaches a decision regarding the person’s mental health.
• Thematic Apperception Test (TAT): Also known as the picture interpretation technique, the TAT involves describing ambiguous scenes to know about the person’s emotions and personality. The person is shown a series of picture cards which could be anything like images of people, scenes, situations, etc. The patients are then asked to tell a dramatic story for each picture which helps the psychiatrist assess their mental health.
• Children Apperception Test (CAT): The test is done to assess the child’s responses to standardized stimuli in the form of pictures of animals (CAT-A) or humans (CAT-H) in common situations. This helps the mental health specialist to assess the child’s personality, level of maturity, overall psychological health, and more.

Treatment & Services

• Psychotherapy: Apart from medication to reduce the biochemical imbalance in the brain and relieve hallucinations, etc., the mental health specialist provides psychotherapy to make them realize or sense the illness. This helps them deal with the impact of the illness to some extent. 
• Support Groups: Better known as self-help groups, it comprises mental health professionals. These groups are a boon for people struggling with mental health conditions and help them gain insight into their condition. This helps the patients reduce stress, depression, anxiety, fatigue, feeling of loneliness or being judged, and more. 
• Forensic Psychiatry: The specialization primarily deals with mental health issues in prison inmates and secure hospitals. The experts provide expert knowledge on issues such as readiness for parole, commitment legislation applicable to exiting offenders, and so on. The experts are very well aware of the interactions in mental health systems and their links with justice and correctional systems.
• Brain Stimulation Therapy: These are non-invasive procedures used by brain specialists and psychiatrists to treat serious mental disorders. Some of these brain-stimulating therapies include Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), Magnetic seizure therapy (MST), Deep brain stimulation (DBS), and so on.

Going by the latest studies on mental health, one in every eight people in the world, needs mental health services and unfortunately, most of these people do not have easy access to mental health doctors or mental health centers.
So, next time anyone is looking for the best psychiatrist near me or the best psychiatrist in Bhopal do tell them about the best place to treat mental disorders and regain mental health which is none other than Apollo Sage Hospitals, Bhopal.