Marital Problems

Marital problems are common to all marriages and may be both frustrating and vexing at the same time. Some common marital problems and ways to cope up with them are mentioned below-

Communication gap or misunderstanding is one of the most marital problems that couples come across. This may be due to either lack of time or your unwillingness to hear out your partner with as much zeal and ardor as you would expect from them when you have something to share. Sometimes, if people have grown up in an abusive and violent environment, it tends to reflect on their relationships later on in life. A person who has seen his parents yell and shout at each other will always retort to the same in case of an argument with his/her spouse leading to marital problems. This onerous baggage being carried by an individual from youth is a result of many marital problems and can be treated only through therapy. When you enter into a nuptial with a plethora of expectations and are disappointed later on as a result of your expectations being unfulfilled, marital problems begin to creep in. mostly these expectations cannot be even put into words. What is worse is that the only way to deal with these insidious expectations is to fulfill them yourself. It is not the responsibility of your spouse to cater to your preconceived expectations. This is the number one evil when it comes to marital problems. Infidelity is more a result of a breaking marriage than its cause. This is no way justifies, rationalizes or vindicates cheating on your spouse. This only points out that a well satiated person who is content in his marriage may never look outside to fill himself up. Marriage counseling and therapy is an option for some while others may opt to end the marriage.

                                                                                           Mrs. Anita Chaudhary

                                                                                            Clinical Psychologist

                                                                                                   ASHA USA

Stress

Stress is one of the common term that people strongly uses these days because of the fact that individual’s life has become so difficult and complicated that in today’s scenario taking stress has become a major factor of being workaholic or not able to manage time between family, relationships and work as well. Along with it, work life imbalance because of not taking time out for you self and family as well can trigger the level of stressors in individual’s life. Besides those environmental factors such as earthquakes, fire, pollution crowding are some other factors that affects the health of an individual. Stress can lead to various changes in life that can lead to hassles, burn outs, frustration, and conflict with family or friends.

Some of the factors that can control stress in individual’s life are:

•  Meditation
• Self hypnosis 
•  Positive affirmations
• Yoga
•  Exercise
• Rest, Relaxation and Sleep
• Minimizing environmental stress          

                                                                                             Megha Razdan
                                                                                     (Counseling psychologist)
                                                                                              ASHA USA
                                                                                                      

How do Alchol use affect people?

Small amounts of alcohol may have beneficial cardiovascular effects, there is widespread agreement that heavier drinking can lead to health problems. In fact, 100,000 Americans die from alcohol-related causes each year. Short-term effects include memory loss, hangovers, and blackouts. Long-term problems associated with heavy drinking include stomach ailments, heart problems, cancer, brain damage, serious memory loss, and liver cirrhosis. Heavy drinkers also markedly increase their chances of dying from automobile accidents, homicide, and suicide. Although men are much more likely than women to develop alcoholism, women's health suffers more, even at lower levels of consumption.

Drinking problems also have a very negative impact on mental health. Alcohol abuse and alcoholism can worsen existing conditions such as depression or induce new problems such as serious memory loss, depression, or anxiety.

Alcohol problems don't just hurt the drinker. Spouses and children of heavy drinkers are more likely to face family violence; children are more likely to suffer physical and sexual abuse and neglect and to develop psychological problems. Women who drink during pregnancy run a serious risk of damaging their fetuses. Relatives and friends can be killed or injured in alcohol-related accidents and assaults.

                                                                                                    Miss Deepali Bedi

                                                                                  (Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist)

                                                                                                       Asha USA

                                                                                                                  

Depression in Children

Depression is a debilitating psychological illness characterized by chronic, oppressive sadness that does not subside normally. According to the many studies on children between six and 12 years of age suggest that 10 percent suffer from clinical depression. As in adults, depression in children is believed to be caused by a combination of genetic, biological and environment factors. However, because children cannot express themselves like adults, symptoms of depression are typically manifested differently. Signs of childhood depression include sleep or appetite disturbance, drop in school performance, nervousness or hyperactivity, slowed physical movement or speech, muteness, explosive anger, irritability, excessive crying, unexplained fears, aggression, antisocial behavior, isolation or unsubstantiated physical pain.

                      

                                                                                                         

                                                                                    Miss Anita Chaudhary
                                                                                    ( clinical psychologist )
                                                                                           Asha USA

Sex addiction is a psychiatric illness.

London: Sex addiction, in which sufferers have relentless sexual urges, will soon be formally recognised as a psychiatric disorder by American Psychiatric Association, a media report said.

The “addiction” is being discussed by experts for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association, the Daily Mail' reported. The manual is considered the definitive guide to what constitutes a genuine psychological disorder rather than an imaginary one.

Sex addiction actually became highly publicised when celebrities such as Tiger Woods and Russell Brand sought treatment for the condition.

The United Kingdom's health service is starting a preliminary project for sex addiction treatment, which experts say, could spark a boom in drug companies repackaging anti-depressants and sex-drive-suppressants. 

The Priory chain of clinics say that its patients “work on themselves for eight or nine hours a day in group therapy, in individual sessions with their psychiatrists and with a wide range of trained therapists”.

Clinical psychologist and sex therapist Janet Hall said that patients with sex addiction problems now make up the majority of her clients.