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My Brother Is Severely Depressed But He Is Treated As A Mental Patient
dear doctor i am really upset .my brother aged 23 is a mental patient and is undergoing treatment for 6 long years without any improvement.....instead his condition is getting worst.he was otherwise a normal person but wrong treatment has made him worst so much so that he is suffering a lot now....earlier he only got depressed but now he hurts him,throws tantrums,once he even bite my mom when he got angry...he is not eating anything and is hurting himself....he has even got a tendency to commit suicide ....we went to Ranchi and Vellore but they said that he is not a mental patient but a patient of severe depression .....please help!
Tue, 11 Jan 2011
Hi Saswati,
From the symptoms you have given, it appears that he may have something called as "Personality disorder" in addition to his mood/depression problems. This kind of problem needs long term treatment and family members will be an important part of this treatment.
NIMHANS in Bangalore, Institute of Psychiatry ranchi, CMC vellore.....are few names that jump to my mind which can handle this kind of problem effectively. As I said this will need lot of assessment and therapy is long. Please ask for a "Personality disorder specialist" to assess him.
With regards to admission, it will be only needed when the risk to himself or others is very immediate or very great otherwise, we always like to manage these kind of problems in their own sorroundings.
Management will include medication but psychological/talking therapies play the biggest part and most lasting effects.
Bottomline, please get someone more experienced in personality disorders to assess him.
Good Luck to both of you
From the symptoms you have given, it appears that he may have something called as "Personality disorder" in addition to his mood/depression problems. This kind of problem needs long term treatment and family members will be an important part of this treatment.
NIMHANS in Bangalore, Institute of Psychiatry ranchi, CMC vellore.....are few names that jump to my mind which can handle this kind of problem effectively. As I said this will need lot of assessment and therapy is long. Please ask for a "Personality disorder specialist" to assess him.
With regards to admission, it will be only needed when the risk to himself or others is very immediate or very great otherwise, we always like to manage these kind of problems in their own sorroundings.
Management will include medication but psychological/talking therapies play the biggest part and most lasting effects.
Bottomline, please get someone more experienced in personality disorders to assess him.
Good Luck to both of you
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You need to go to the hospital he has to be put in a stabilization unit so that he can be monitored all day every day this is not uncommon everybody is diffrent and mess don't always work the same on everybody there millions of diffrent meds and he just needs monitored in a close and secure setting
See if there is a agency called can help if you have one around you they will set everything up for you if not he definitely needs to go to the er and tell them he has sucidal and homicidal tendencies and you need help now before he kills himself or hurts others they will deffinitley get you help for him
See if there is a agency called can help if you have one around you they will set everything up for you if not he definitely needs to go to the er and tell them he has sucidal and homicidal tendencies and you need help now before he kills himself or hurts others they will deffinitley get you help for him
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