Psychological Therapy is More Important Than You Think

Over the past few years, the conversation around child therapy has taken a turn for the good. While the stigma around mental health continues to breathe normally in our lives, it has started to become better than what it was before. The idea of a therapist for teens is more accepting in today’s society and so it should be. Kids have enormous pressures to deal with and they barely have the necessary tools to handle that level of pressure on a daily basis. Apart from the stress, prevalent issues like bullying, aggravated family matters, divorces and more, also play a huge role in children seeking therapy. To deal with adolescents and teens, there are different kinds of psychologists who are equipped with different sets of skills. These psychologists are called child psychologists and nowadays, there are plenty of practicing child psychologists in major cities of India. Tier 2 and tier 3 cities are still catching up to this phenomenon. So, why and when does your child need therapy? ...

The generation that’s been brought up with the internet has finally done something that generations before could not do — start a meaningful conversation around mental health. But is that just because this generation is more approachable or because this generation, more than any, needs therapy? The answer is a lot more complex than the question. How do you suggest that a generation that went through a literal war didn’t depression therapy as much as this generation does? Or the generation that lived through the great depression? While there are substantial cases to be built for all the generations, the bottom line is that this generation has more access to therapy than the older ones. This also means that the new generation sees mental health problems and tries to address them, instead of suppressing them like they did in the older days. In today’s hyper competitive, cutthroat, limited opportunities world, the pressures are unsurmountable on the kids. What also plays an importa...

Mental health in India continues to have a stigma attached to it. Even in urban India, where conversation about mental health has become more diverse, the overarching feeling continues to be that of shame. However, it is worth noting that depression counselling in Mumbai and other major cities of India has become a lot more accessible. This can be attributed to social media in a major way. Thanks to the internet and social media becoming such a major part of our lives, seeing people talk about mental health in such an open and unabashed way has had a huge impact on this conversation. People are now willing to understand mental health issues and give them the importance that they’d usually give to other physical health issues. While words like depression are still thrown around a lot more casually, people have become a bit more sensitized to this issue. The best way to tackle this stigma is conversations — that is something that everyone believes in. The more people talk about m...

Marriage is a complicated and intricate union. Each couple comes across a different set of problems and each couple has different ways of coping. Not just interpersonal differences, there are a lot of external factors that play a part in the dynamics of a couple. In India, family relations, relatives, sociology -economic background of both the people, personal goals and aims play very important roles in how the couple copes with marital problems. While seeking help of a relationship advisor is still its nascent phase of popularity, recent cultural shift has definitely made it an option to be considered for couples of having marital problems. Most of the times, couples usually sit on the fence when it comes to therapy because of societal conditioning that starts from the moment we can understand words. In our culture, couples are not allowed to have problems, or if they do have any issues, they are supposed to be solved behind closed doors. However, nowadays, couples, especially in ...

Behavioral therapy is an umbrella under which many different types of therapy are placed which are primarily focused on treating mental health disorders. In this form of therapy, a therapist for teens or children plays the role of identifying destructive and unhealthy behavioral patterns and then changing them. Basically, it is unlearning harmful behaviors that are previously learned.  Who benefits from behavioral therapy? A wide range of disorders can be treated using behavioral therapy. The most common disorders treated using behavioral therapy are: Anxiety disorders  Depressive disorders Panic disorders  Anger issues  Eating disorders  Post-traumatic stress disorder Mood disorders  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder  Phobias  Obsessive compulsive disorder  Substance abuse, alcoholism  Self-harm tendencies, suicidal tendencies For behavioral...