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Looking at this topic, Understanding Unhappiness, you must be thinking “I don’t need someone else to tell me what unhappiness is, I know it damn well, and also what causes it”. But let me tell you the language that we use to convey our negative emotions can be misleading, and it needs to be understood…

You are not trying hard enough, The desired goal was only at your thought level, your whole being was not engaged in the activity. You are not taking the medicine in the right dose. You are not willing to pay the price, You are not willing to give up lifestyle/habits you have become accustomed to.…

We live on hope, without hope life will not be acceptable to us because the present does not satisfy us fully,  Is it a good thing that the present is not acceptable to us? Or should we mold our psyche in such a way that the present becomes acceptable to us? Spirituality demands that we…

We are not totally free, we create freewill through our actions.  Rollo May describes it as playing a game of chess; to begin with we have a certain amount of freedom to act, and as the game progresses, our freedom grows or curtailed depending upon how we play till we reach a point where we,…

Different things matter to us at different times. The fact that they don’t hang together as a single whole takes away the meaning from our life. However, there is another way of looking at meaning.  The meaning can be found inside the experience in itself rather than analysing what happens ultimately. The sensual pleasures can…

Willpower is not something that is innate, unchangeable and very difficult to achieve. A strong willpower does not mean that the person is fighting with themselves all the time. The exercise of a strong willpower should be an effortless and pleasurable experience. A good planning can minimize the fight e.g. fighting to wake up at…

Following an initial consultation with one of our Consultant Psychiatrists, we are usually able to offer a specific programme of treatment tailored to a client’s individual needs. The range of treatments that are available include: Medication – Prescription of medication, including regular reviews for monitoring of therapeutic effects and telephone consultations for advice with a…

Six Session Stress Management Programme Dr Chandiramani has developed a six session stress management programme. This programme is relevant to the needs of clients suffering from: anxiety, depression, obsessions, phobias, psychosomatic disorders, relationship problems, work related and general stress symptoms. Dr Chandiramani and his team conduct psychotherapy sessions, both individually and in groups, based on…

Dr Chandiramani has extensive experience in working with clients who require assessments for personal injury claims, mental capacity, occupational fitness, employment and mental health tribunals, fitness to plead, parenting and risk assessments etc. He has worked in forensic, mother and baby, old age psychiatry and substance misuse treatment settings and this experience has enabled him…

Tiredness: Is it physical or mental? Tiredness can be understood in terms of it two broad categories, physical tiredness and mental tiredness. The actual experience of the two is exactly the same and sometimes it is difficult to differentiate between the two, and we end up misunderstanding mental tiredness as physical one. Tiredness can result…