OCD manifests in a diverse group of symptoms though ritual pre-occupation and compulsive behaviour. Patient indulges in obsession and compulsion bahaviours that take up so much of their time, distorting significantly their normal activities. Obsessive thoughts relate to issues bordering on cleanliness, infections, security, sex, obscenity and so on and so forth. It comes as repeated behaviour like continuously cleaning the toilets, repeated locking and checking of doors, rebuking of thoughts about sexual relationship wit a pastor or one's parents etc.
The condition is quite disturbing and needs adequate intervention.
We provide adequate management and treatment of these conditions.
Post-Traumatic Stress-Related Disorder (PTSD) is a condition marked by development of the symptoms after exposure to traumatic life experiences It may also be called stress-related condition or acute stress-related condition or acute stress - related disorders, also adjustment disorder or anxiety disorder.
Traumatic events that may result in PTSD include attacks by bandits, kidnapping, attack by armed robbers, earthquake, war, collapsed buildings, survival from human trafficking experience, rape, car accidents, divorce, bullying and other life - shattering events a person survives.
At Hakron Specialist Care Centre, we provide scientific care for such patients to help them recover and return to their normal lives.
The family ia a basic social unity of society. Marriage is the gateway to family life. So many psychological factors impact the choice of a marriage partner. That choice can make or mar the lives of parties to a marriage if it all turns awry.
The outcomes of marriages: good or bad, have profound impact upon the home, the neighbourhood and the entire society. Many social and psychiatric and psychological problems have their root in habits, indulgences and poor attitude to life that impact children and parties to a bad marriage. Incompatible couples work at cross purpose and the lack of unity has far-reaching consequences on the children.
Understanding of the implications of personality types and attendant traits, health status and mental state of couples are a sine qua non to the question of choice of partner and what to expect.
Our marriage counselling sessions involve scientific methods. We help couples discover issues in their lives and personalities and to enable them make informed decisions.
This is characterized by undue sadness, loss of energy of unknown origin, poor appetite and weight loss. It is also characterized by pessimistic attitude towards life, poor sleep, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt and suicidal behaviour.
Depression cab be a component of bipolar affective disorders and can occur alone.
Depression, when it is severe can be complicated by hallucination, delusion and some other psychotic symptoms.
Schizophrenia is a clinical condition of variable but profoundly disruptive, psycho-physiological disturbance that involves impairment of cognition, perception, emotion and other aspects of behaviour. The manifestation of this illness varies among patients and overtime but the effect of the illness is usually severe and long-lasting.
The major manifestations are in the form of hallucinations, delusion, behavioural oddity that meet Eugene Blueler first rank symptoms.
The causes are largely unknown but many etiological factors have been identified including, but not limited to, genetics, the use of psychoactive substances like Cannabis, life events, family disruption among others. All the causal - related factors are grouped into predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factors.
Treatment could last for between 4 weeks to 6 weeks before the patient returns to his normal personality state.
These comprise of groups of disorders occurring in an individual in alternating ways within a period of time, usually more than a week.
Those disorders include mania, hypomania and depressive face. Symptoms are are essentially everyday behavioural patterns that occur everyday for too long a time or with too high or low energy. Normal daily activities may involve a spike in energy, sudden low or increased appetite,, poor sleep or reduced need for sleep, increased libido, reduced libido, dangerous adventure tendencies and so on and so forth. When it becomes a severe illness, there could be psychotic symptoms in which case, the behaviour is noticeably completely out of touch with reality.
Etiological factors are similar to those of Schizophrenia.
In the layman's terms, it is a group of disorders for which a person becomes a slave to one or more of the known psychoactive substances which include cannabis, heroine, codeine, alcohol, cocaine (crack, SK etc), methyamohetamine (ICE) and others.
They become so dependent on these drugs at all times. They associate more with other abusers of substances and with suppliers. After a long time of abuse of substance, they may start manifesting odd behaviour.
Causative factors that predispose persons to drug dependence include genetics, poor or bad parenting, state of family life, peer groups and early exposure.
We rehabilitate such patients for 12 weeks.
Relapse may occur. Outcomes of rehabilitation depends on the patient, family support and quality and competence of caregivers.
Here, the focus is on preventive and curative measures for persons who are worried about specific issues about themselves. We assist persons who have lost focus and confidence in themselves or control over their emotions and personal affairs and inter-personal and group relationships, with causative factors having little or nothing to do with outsiders.
These services include, but is not limited to:
- Personality Assessment
- Pre-Marriage Counselling for Couples
- Assertive Training
- Sexual Dysfunction Among Newly Married Couples
Our medical facility is state of the art. Apart from our In-Patient and Out-Patient facilities, we also have comfortable private wards and sports facility.
