IT'S Crowded Here

                       A female once travelled with her family to a marriage function nearby. When she entered the van arranged for that and the door was closed, she felt distressed and breathless. She had palpitations , ringing in the ears, fainting attacks and excessive sweating and came out of the van. She felt relieved and she did not travel in the van on that day and never after that. She avoids travelling in bus and van but prefers her scooter to travel after that incident. Few days later she went to a shopping mall with her family. She took the lift to go to the upper floor. She suddenly felt giddiness, palpitations, nausea, upset stomach and sweating. She came out of the lift in the very next floor. She did not take the lift back down .She avoided to use lift from then on for past three years now due the fear of developing the same symptoms. Once the lady went to her neighbor’s house .when she was speaking to her neighbor the door closed automatically due to wind. When she noticed that she felt discomfort and became restless .she ran out of the house in fear.

                        The symptoms the female had were suggestive of a condition called AGORAPHOBIA. In Agoraphobia there is marked and consistently maintained fear and the person avoids crowds, public places, travelling alone and travelling to far away places. The persons suffering from this disorder feel escape might be difficult from these places or help may not be available. This condition can occur mostly in persons who are anxious and avoidant and also in persons in severe stress or depression. Women are found to have more prevalence than men.

Early intervention and treatment with medications, relaxation and breathing techniques are found to show excellent results. So friends if any person is found to have these symptoms please consult your psychiatrist as soon as possible for better results….

Few other phobias are 

ACROPHOBIA - Fear of heights
CLAUSTROPHOBIA – Fear of closed places
HYDROPHOBIA - Fear of water (in rabies infection)
XENOPHOBIA – Fear of strangers,
ZOOPHOBIA – Fear of animals.

Please know them and share with others. 

LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE .....

DrBevinsathya

Cocaine a lethal CNS Stimulant

                 Cocaine is an alkaloid which is derived from coca bush. It is commonly called by the street name “Crack”.  Cocaine is a central stimulant which can be inhaled, smoked, or injected. The highest concentration of cocaine is found in the inject able form. People abuse cocaine to attain euphoric effect. Though government has tried to eradicate cocaine abuse young people abusing cocaine are increasing day by day. Cocaine though a CNS stimulant can cause serious side effects to the abuser.

The intoxication of this substance is associated with tachycardia, hypertension, sweating sleep disturbances and increased psychomotor activity. The abusers lose their personal and social judgment and have psychotic symptoms. On chronic use of heavy doses the person can have seizures, respiratory depression, arrhythmias and heart attacks. The use of these substances can also be an illness behavior due to depression and other mood disorders. Cocaine is a lethal substance which produces dependence and is very difficult to stop once a person starts abusing it. Any person abusing cocaine must consult a psychiatrist as soon as possible to undergo dead diction treatment, supportive psychotherapy and behavior therapy to prevent further complications….

LET'S MAKE A  DIFFERENCE ......                                                                                                                 DR.Bevinsathya                                    

My Childhood Memories

I can scan my remote memory way back to the day when I crawled to my mother to get rice mixed with milk. She used to tell me stories to make me eat. I still remember the day I sat with my grandmother at the age of 2yrs in the balcony noticing a crow struggling to get away from a tree. Days later my grandmother fell ill and was taken to hospital and I ran behind the wheel chair in the ramp not knowing what was happening to her. I remember the day when I sat in my father’s arm and looking at grandma’s body and asked “when will grandma wake up?’’ not knowing she has passed away. The first day I went to school my mother made me sit in the classroom and waited outside. I was so afraid and I cried and ran back to her. I remember few of my first friends in LKG.

 I remember many a thing about me and my brother fighting with each other. Once at the age of 5yrs I tried to take a honey bottle which slipped and fell down. When noticed by my father I blamed my brother and he was beaten up. Once we both went late to house after playing in school and were gifted effectively. After every annual leave I remember the exam writing pad becoming a cricket bat and ice-cream ball becoming cricket ball for me and my brother. When I go with my brother walking to school whenever we notice a new bike or car we used to say “when we become rich we will buy all those cars and bikes”. Once my father gave two rupees for us to buy chocolate. I remember asking the shop keeper to give me a five star chocolate. He told me it cost five rupees. I went back and waited for few months to get another three rupees from father. I ran to the shop as fast I could and bought a five star and I and my brother shared it.Every Sunday father gives thirty rupees to buy chicken. I and my brother were made to wait hours because the shopkeeper was busy packing bigger parcels and welcoming people coming in bikes and cars. Whenever I am free I become a driver to a cycle tyre.

 The best of all my childhood memories was when my father and mother take us outside to take dress for New Year or birthday. We used to walk together for about five kilometres to textile shop. My father sacrifices his new dress because of us taking costly dresses. We thought then our father was not interested in buying new dress for him. Then we go to hotel to have a nice non-veg dinner. Our mother convinces our father to buy us ice cream for a final finishing touch. Then we walk back home happily talking about our new dresses when my father silently does come calculations by making gestures in air. We never knew what he was doing. Well he was calculating the expenses and the savings he has to make for future expenses.

Now after so much years has passed after seeing so many people having a poor childhood period going on to develop dependence to substances, drugs and other behavioural problems I realize the importance of my childhood. A famous psychologist has once told “tell me a child’s first two years I will predict his future”. Such is the importance of our childhood. When we ask a few patients what they like in childhood they used to say “I don’t like to remember that”. I learned love and affection from my mother, discipline from my father, sharing with others from my brother and patience a very important component in life from the shopkeeper who used to make us wait for hours for a few grams of chicken….thanks to all of them…

We knew we were not rich we were not wealthy but our parents never let us suffer and we were very happy. Well I know I can’t get these childhood times back again but if god gives me a chance to choose something I will say to him to give me the first ten years of my childhood back to go back and thank my parents, my brother ,my grandma and all those involved for making me what I am today. Friends it is never too late than never to thank your parents, brothers and sisters who have made you what you are today. Let it be today….

“DAYS MAY PASS BUT MY MEMORIES WILL STAY”.

                                                                                  LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE – Dr.Bevinsathya.