HOSPITAL TREATMENTS

Out Patients Department (OPD) Treatments

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and debilitating brain disorder that affects people.
Treatment by Medication
• Antipsychotic medications are medicines that act upon neurochemicals targeting both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
• They help improve the way your brain uses certain chemicals that control thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
• antipsychotic medications take time – usually 1 to 2 weeks – to work, and often, symptoms such as sleep, fearfulness, aggression, improve before thought process stabilizes.
• Frequently Sedatives (benzodiazepenes) are added in initial phases to control the symptoms quickly.
• Medication duration depends on multiple factors like number and types of episodes, total duration of illness, genetic loading, comorbid drug use etc and is hence best decided by the treating doctor.
• Patients are adviced not stop taking medication without the help of a doctor.

Treatment of Schizophrenia Counseling/ Psychotherapy
There are different types of therapy available which are chosen as per the patient’s symptoms.
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) – methods to learn to cope with residual delusions and hallucinations(voices).
• Family therapy – generating awareness in family about psychosis promotes supportive environment aiding recovery.
• Insight Oriented Psychotherapy- teaching patient’s about their illness, differentiating between what is real and what is not.
• Interpersonal therapy (IPT) – centers on resolving interpersonal problems and aiding recovery.
• Psychodynamic Therapy – focused on revealing unconscious content of patient’s psyche to alleviate psychic tension.
• Social Rhythm Therapy – to develop normal sleep schedule and predictable daily routines.
• Social Skills training – focused on improving social skills.

Psychosexual Disorders

Treatment
The first thing the doctor does is to make sure that the patient is getting the right treatment for any health conditions that could be causing or worsening patient’s erectile dysfunction.
Medication-
Pharmacological agents can be used to treat Erectile Dysfunction after a comprehensive assessment. The exact medicine required will be decided after a thorough assessment.
Psychological Techniques
Counseling – Addressing psychological problems between couples.
Behavioural Techniques – Behavioural techniques to increase performance
Sexual Therapies
Relationship Therapies
Psychoeducation

Bipolar Disorder

Treatment by Medication
• Mood Stabilizing medication are medicines that stabilize the mood preventing both depression and mania.
• They help improve the way one’s brain uses certain chemicals that control mood.
• Mood Stabilizing medication take time – usually 1 to 2 weeks – to work, and often, symptoms such as sleep, activity levels, energy levels improve before mood stabilizes.
• Frequently antipsychotic medications and sedatives (benzodiazepene) are added in initial phases to control the symptoms quickly.
• Antidepressants , if added are tapered off sooner to prevent triggering a manic relapse.
• Medication duration depends on multiple factors like number and types of episodes, total duration of illness, genetic loading, comorbid drug use etc and is hence best decided by the treating doctor.
• Do not stop taking medication without the help of a doctor.
Treatment by Counseling/ Psychotherapy
There are different types of therapy available which are chosen as per the patient’s symptoms.
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) – methods to learn to identify and modify thought patterns accompanying mood shifts.
• Interpersonal therapy (IPT) – centers on resolving interpersonal problems and aiding recovery.
• Psychodynamic Therapy – focused on revealing unconscious content of patient’s psyche to alleviate psychic tension.
Social Rhythm Therapy – to develop normal sleep schedule and predicatble daily routines.
Social skills therapy – training for social skills.