Psychology Made Simple : How to cope with Stressful Situations Part 3

Behavioral Activation

In this method,our aim is to encourage the patient to take up and get involved in productive activities and keep a record of these on daily basis and convey them to their counsellor.

It is a consyructive method to divert attention of someone with depression.

Psychology Made Simple : How to cope with Stressful Situations 2

The Cycle of Positivity Vs The Cycle of Depression :

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There are two different cycles that can be utilized to show the cycle of Activity and Cycle od Depression.

These are below :






In order to avoid going into depression,some key steps need to be followed:






Efforts should be made to try to adopt a positive daily activities performance report:

Psychology Made Simple : How to cope with Stressful Situations

Human life is complex and everyone faces a stressful situation at some time.
This could be a failure in exam,an accident,a death of someone close or some form of bullying / harrassment.

Life in not perfect and everyone has to go through tough times in life to achieve succees,

The key is to cope with the stressful situation adequately and move forward in life.

While there is reported to be an imabalance of chemicals / neurotransmitters in brain during periods of stress and medications do help but the following steps are very useful in order to tackle with a difficult situation :

1.Talk to someone close to you who you trust and discuss about your issues.This could be family or firends

2.Seek advice / support from someone who you have trust in and is more experienced in life / senior to you eg someone in your family : Parents or elder siblings.

3 .Do something that makes you feel better.eg going to a park or a natural resort.

4.Try to assess the damage done.Was there a cause for this event eg some inexperience on your behalf or some bias from someone.?

5.Dont be left alone

6.Think positive and  plan how to get out of this situation.Move ahead and march forward.Going in other directions may prove lethal.

7.Look at the moments of success in your life and feel optimistic that you will overcome this too.8.

8.We are not perfect and not meant to succeed in everything.Failures do happen and should be taken as a step towards success by learning from their causes and how to prevent them again.

9.Try to change the course of your thoughts and get out of the loop / cycle of thoughts of depression.

10 Indulge in some positive / constructive  activity for a longer time period

Rheumatology Made Simple : Monoarthritis

Rheumatology Made Simple :  Monoarthritis

Pain and inflammation of a single joint is known as monoarthritis.

Targeted History and examination is important in order to narrow down the differential diagnosis.

Common causes of Monoarthritis include the following :

Trauma



Crystal Arthropathy



Gout / Pseudo Gout

Infections

Seronegative spondyloarthritis



Nonspecific inflammatory conditions,



Neoplasm



Immunologic conditions.

Key steps in developing Differential Diagnosis :

1. Is there any history of trauma.

2.Decide if process is articular or extra articular.,

3.Use clues from history and physical examination to narrow down the differential diagnosis ( Age,Gender,Risk factors,Previous episodes,Family history,Back pain,Travel history

Presence of extra-articular manifestations is particularly useful.

4.Obtain labarotory data .This is unlikely to make a diagnosis in isolation.

5.Joint aspiration is done to analyze synovial fluid to establish diagnosis and guide therapy