(1) Psychological symptoms of depression in patients with diabetes are more specific to depression than their somatic counterparts (2) Specificity of the somatic symptoms of depression is increased when the somatic symptoms are severe, start concomitantly with depressed mood or anhedonia, are unrelated to diabetes, or appear out of proportion to what is expected (3) […]
Tag Archives: psychiatric
Hints On managing Obsessive symptoms in Schizophrenic Patient
Insight: • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with poor insight should be considered a severe form of OCD and not be mistaken for a primary psychotic disorder; a careful history is required to ascertain for insight in previous OCD exacerbations • OCD with poor insight may respond to treatment with an SSRI without the addition of […]
How to win friends and influence people
How to Handle People Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. Arouse in people an eager want. Give honest and sincere appreciation. Don’t Criticize, Condemn or Complain One of the primary areas that Dale Carnegie focuses on is our ability to handle people effectively under different conditions and circumstances. He points out that we must never criticize, […]
Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It)
Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had one hour to save the world he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. This quote does illustrate an important point: before jumping right into solving a problem, we should step back and invest time and effort to improve […]
How to solve Problems? the solver’s attitude
Indispensable Problem Solver Attributes To become a great problem solver requires a little more then a set of effective problem solving strategies. In fact, your ability to solve problem starts in your head at a psychological level. If you do not take the time to fully condition your mind and prepare it for the act […]
Can you be Managerial Thinker
The Managerial Blue Hat Thinker An effective problem solver has to have a means of managing and directing their thought process in a proactive way. Likewise, they must have a way of processing and guiding each of their thoughts in a neutral and unbiased manner that’s focused on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the […]
Energize Yourself, Art of self Motivation
1. Make a deal with yourself. Good for overcoming procrastination and getting things done. You can make the deal small or large. You simple tell yourself something like: When I’m done with this chapter/these reports I can take a walk in the park and enjoy an ice-cream. 2. Act like it. If you don’t feel motivated […]
When You Fail doing something?…… Ask Yourself?
5 Great Questions to Ask Yourself After a Failure Yes, we failed, Let’s face it. We all fail. As we go through life we have relationships that don’t work out, jobs that just aren’t right, exams that we flunk, initiatives that don’t succeed. The more new things we try the more failures we are […]
More Maturity is More Emotional Mastering, How to Master your Emotions?
Did you know that your daily emotional experience shapes the decisions you make and the actions you take? It has been said that it’s not what happens to us, but rather how we respond to what happens that determines the results you will experience in your life. And how you respond is directly influenced by how you […]
No More Procrastination..
Reasons for Our Procrastination Habits For every action there is a cause — a trigger of sorts that instantly brings forth decisions and behaviors that lead to daily and lifelong consequences that many of us accept without question. For those of us who are not aware of these triggers, life can be very difficult to manage. […]
10 ways to make others like you
The 10 characteristics of likeable people – Are you one of them? Likeable people can win you directly. Looking at someone in the eyes or speaking with them, you quickly feel familiar and positive feelings are created. Is it really a charisma the way that a person can earn the liking in their environment? […]
Are you a last minute man? living in Urgency
Living with a Sense of Urgency There are some real and tangible reason why you’re not where you want to be in your life. It could result from unhelpful beliefs, dreadful habits, conflicting goals or values, and a plethora of other ways you have found to sabotage yourself. You might in fact have worked through […]
Regret, How to deal with..?
What is Regret? Regret is an uncomfortable feeling indicating that something you did or failed to do can’t be changed. It’s a sense-of-loss you feel about something. This sense-of-loss can stem from a missed opportunity or a disappointment of some sort. You are feeling uncomfortable because you wish things were different, you wish you made […]
Update of somatic treatment of depression
Alan F. Schatzberg Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1991 – present) Director, Stanford Mood Disorders Center (2009 – present) Chair, Stanford University School of Medicine – Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1991 – 2010) Charles Nemeroff , M.D. Contact Fax: 305-355-9201 Specialties Psychiatry – Psychiatry & Neurology Languages English […]
Rule 10-90 for Stephen Covey
كيف تعبر عن الشكر و الامتنان للآخرين
يفتقد العديد منا مهارة التعبير عن الامتنان و التقدير و هو أبسط شئ وأهم شئ ينمي علاقتك باﻵخرين.. أحيانا خجلا و أحيانا تكاسلا وهاهي طرق ثمانية لعمل ذلك 1- لفظيا الشكر المباشر أوقف الشخص المقصود أنظر مباشرة للعين أذكر اسمه ” أحمد .. أشكرك شكر خاص و أقدر تماما الجهد الذي عملته من أجل ……. […]
تنظيم الوقت -خطوات رائعة ﻻدارة و قتك
الوقت ينفرط من بين أيدينا و اللحظة التي تضيع لن تعود أبدا فلا تتأخر و كفى ما ضيعنا من وقت اعرف ما تريد وحدد هدفك الان وأكتب ما تريد ان تفعل ثم قسم الاولويات فيما تفعل ركز على أهدافك و ليس نشاطاتك و أهم نشاط و عمل مهم يحقق هدفك ضع على اﻷقل رؤية […]
Improve Your Memory and Recall
Chunking One way to make it easier to remember several pieces of information is to put it into chunks. For example, instead of trying to remember these numbers: 2,7,5,3,8,7,9,3,2,6,5,8,9, & 5, try to remember this instead: 2753, 8793, 2658 and 95. Your brain can retain more information if you group it in this way than […]
Causes of Death in A Psychiatric Hospital?
What are the possible causes of sudden, unexplained death in Psychiatric Hospital inpatient? 1- Co -incident 2- High dose neuroleptics, first generation antipsychotics in high dose block the cell membrane sodium pump and this will decrease the cardiac conduction velocity with consequent decrease of heart rate and contraction. This might alter or result in ventricular […]
Nursing inpatient psychiatric observation
Orientation: This scaling should be done twice daily and nursing staff should be well trained to perform .Here the nurse can scale the specified targeted mental function along the day. Knows where he is yes = 10 no = 0 Knows surroundings Talk: Short phrases yes = […]
Activities: (Nursing Observations – in Psychiatric Wards)
Activities: Here the nurse should match how is the patient’s behavior … also she can not only match yes or no but also give a specified degree out of 10 according to her evaluation This observational evaluation could be missing the inter-rater reliability but however, it can verifies how is the patient is […]