What is Psychiatry & Psychology?
Psychiatry is the study and treatment of mental illness and abnormal behavior. On the other hand, psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, mental characteristics or attitude of a person or group.
What Are The Doctors Of Psychiatry & Psychology Called?
Psychiatrists are medical doctors who are specialized to prescribe medications as their course of treatment. Psychologists, on the other hand, focus on using psychotherapy and behavioral intervention to treat the emotional and mental suffering of patients.
When Is It A Good Time To See A Psychiatrist & Psychologist?
The warning signs and symptoms which might alert you for a visit to a psychiatrist or a psychologist:
- Confused thinking
- Prolonged depression (sadness or irritability)
- Feelings of extreme highs and lows
- Excessive fears, worries and anxieties
- Social withdrawal
- Dramatic changes in eating or sleeping habits
- Strong feelings of anger
- Strange thoughts (delusions)
- Seeing or hearing things that aren’t there (hallucinations)
- Growing inability to cope with daily problems and activities
- Suicidal thoughts
- Numerous unexplained physical ailments
- Substance use
What Do The Doctors Of Psychiatry & Psychology Treat?
- Acute stress disorder
- Adjustment disorder
- Adolescent antisocial behavior
- Adult antisocial behavior
- Agoraphobia
- Alcohol abuse
- Alcohol dependence
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Alcoholic hallucinosis
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amnestic disorder
- Amphetamine dependence
- Anorexia nervosa
- Anterograde amnesia
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Attention deficit disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Autism
- Autophagia
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Atelophobia
- Asperger syndrome
- Anxiety
- Barbiturate dependence
- Benzodiazepine dependence
- Benzodiazepine misuse
- Benzodiazepine withdrawal
- Bereavement
- Bibliomania
- Binge eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Bipolar I disorder
- Bipolar II disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline intellectual functioning
- Borderline personality disorder
- Brief psychotic disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Caffeine-induced anxiety disorder
- Caffeine-induced sleep disorder
- Cannabis dependence
- Catatonic disorder
- Catatonic schizophrenia
- Circadian rhythm sleep disorder
- Claustrophobia
- Cocaine dependence
- Cocaine intoxication
- Cognitive disorder
- Communication disorder
- Conduct disorder
- Cotard delusion
- Cyclothymia
- Delirium tremens
- Depersonalization disorder
- Depressive disorder
- Derealization disorder
- Dermatillomania
- Desynchronosis
- Developmental coordination disorder
- Diogenes Syndrome
- Dispareunia
- Dissociative identity disorder
- Dyspraxia
- Dyslexia
- EDNOS
- Ekbom’s Syndrome (Delusional Parasitosis)
- Encopresis
- Epilepsy
- Enuresis (not due to a general medical condition)
- Erotomania
- Exhibitionism
- Factitious disorder
- Fregoli delusion
- Fugue State
- Ganser syndrome
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- General adaptation syndrome
- Grandiose delusions
- Hallucinogen-related disorder
- Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder
- Histrionic personality disorder
- Huntington’s disease
- Hypomanic episode
- Hypochondriasis
- Insomnia
- Intermittent explosive disorder
- Kleptomania
- Korsakoff’s syndrome
- Lacunar amnesia
- Major depressive disorder
- Major depressive episode
- Maladaptive Daydreaming
- Male erectile disorder
- Malingering
- Manic episode
- Mathematics disorder
- Melancholia
- Minor depressive disorder
- Misophonia
- Mixed episode
- Mood disorder
- Munchausen’s syndrome
- Narcolepsy
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Neurocysticercosis
- Nicotine withdrawal
- Night eating syndrome
- Nightmare disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD)
- Oneirophrenia
- Opioid dependence
- Opioid-related disorder
- Oppositional defiant disorder(ODD)
- Orthorexia (ON)
- Ondine’s curse
- Pain disorder
- Panic disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Parasomnia
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pathological gambling
- Persecutory delusion
- Personality disorder
- Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)
- Phencyclidine (or phencyclidine-like)-related disorder
- Phobic disorder
- Pica (disorder)
- Psychosis
- Phonological disorder
- Physical abuse
- Polysubstance-related disorder
- Posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD)
- Premature ejaculation
- Primary hypersomnia
- Primary insomnia
- Psychogenic amnesia
- Psychotic disorder
- Pyromania
- Reactive attachment disorderof infancy or early childhood
- Recurrent brief depression
- Relational disorder
- Residual schizophrenia
- Retrograde amnesia
- Rumination syndrome
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophreniform disorder
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Sedative-, hypnotic-, or anxiolytic-related disorder
- Selective mutism
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Severe mental retardation
- Shared psychotic disorder
- Sleep disorder
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Sleep terror disorder
- Sleepwalking disorder
- Social anxiety disorder
- Social phobia
- Somatization disorder
- Somatoform disorder
- Specific phobia
- Stereotypic movement disorder
- Stuttering
- Substance-related disorder
- Tardive dyskinesia
- Tourette syndrome
- Transient tic disorder
- Transient global amnesia
- Trichotillomania