Therapy and Psychiatric Care in Parenting

As a psychiatrist, I perform quite a bit a therapy along with medication management. As a matter of fact, therapy continues to be one of my most powerful tools. In training in this profession, they say it is not complete unless you receive therapy yourself and I could...

Emotional Contagion

Emotional contagion refers to shared behaviors or emotional states between individuals. This can be seen in primates as well as non primate organisms. This is believed to be facilitated by mirror neurons. When one organism observes an experience in another (such as...

Signs It Is Going Well or Not With Your Therapist

It is important to bear in mind, that effective therapy is not always what may instinctively come to mind. Believe it or not, therapy has a lot of science behind it. There are many different modalities of therapy (just like different types of exercise, medication,...

Existential Crisis

Image by Freepik   What are common symptoms of an existential crisis? emotionally, it is accompanied by very unpleasant feelings. They can include depressed mood, anxiety, fear, despair and an overall feeling of emotional pain. The caliber of the experience is...