FAQs

Anxiety is a natural response to stress, but when it becomes persistent, overwhelming, or affects daily functioning, it may indicate an anxiety disorder. As a practicing psychiatrist, I often encounter patients who suffer silently, unsure of what’s happening to them. Here are the most frequently asked questions about anxiety disorders, tried to answer as clearly as possibly.

Depression is not just sadness. While everyone feels low at times, clinical depression is a serious mental health condition.

  How is a psychiatrist different from a psychologist?   A psychiatrist is a medical doctor with an MD degree or equivalent who can diagnose mental illnesses, prescribe medications, and provide various forms of therapy. They are first trained in general medicine and surgery, i.e., MBBS, after which they further train for three years for