for national nursing conference 2016

1. common mental health problems
Dr.R.K.Rudhran

2. problems? illnesses?
Call it a crow and
you will never hear its song

3. Psychiatric Disorders
• Major
• Minor
• Organic
• Developmental
• Consequent to physical illnesses

4. Brain..
neuron
synapse
receptor
chemical

5. That happens inside
the hood covers the working of the engine
we do not know how it is inside, we don’t see
but we know when the car doesn’t work

6. • Mechanic asks, “ what is the problem”
• Depending on your answer, he decides
and solves quickly
• similarly

7. ask the patient or the relative
• What is the problem?
• Don’t expect DSM or ICD answers
• Common language, simple statements are
enough to come to a conclusion in
psychiatry

8. an example
• What is the problem
• For how long
• Anything else
• Are three simple and fundamental
questions

9. minor illnesses
• Earlier called neurotic
• Then minor
• Now without heading each has its own
name
• Here is where problems and illnesses
are confused

10. what is your reaction to these
• You lost your purse
• You peep out of the twenty seventh floor
• You see a group of people dancing as
though god has entered them and you like
the music
• You step on faeces, wash up and
then..later
• You hate your job, your boss is sitting on
your head...

11. These are all minor illnesses
• Secondary depression
• Phobia
• Hysterical suggestibility
• Obsessive compulsive remediation
• conversion

12. Secondary or Reactive Depression

13. Anxiety >>> Phobia

14. Conversion

15. Dissociation

16. OCD

17. Mood Disorders
Depression
Mania
Bipolar
Unipolar

18. Depression

19. Mania

20. Schizophrenia

21. organic
• Mental retardation (don’t use the term
now)
• Dementia
• Brain pathology

22. Post partum
Post infective
Drug / Alcohol

23. personality

24. Identification

25. management

26. when to report

27. how to handle
• Aggression
• Crying
• Relatives

28. Side effects to note

29. suicide

30. what and Why

31. Psychiatric nursing is not giving medication.
It is giving consolation,
and working on rehabilitation

32. Keep smiling
and be confident
Confidence comes from knowledge
Keep learning

33. thank you