Psychiatry Consultation
A qualified psychiatrist at the mental health clinic helps you discover the problems caused, puts you on the right path of treatment, and provides you with psychological counseling based on their medical experience and knowledge to help you with the appropriate counseling and or medication.
In light of social and societal problems and conflicts, the need to resort to a psychiatrist to obtain psychiatrist counselling increases, through which the patient improves his or her psychological condition, thoughts, beliefs, and mood.
At Tadawi Medical Center, we provide you with a psychiatric counselling clinic dedicated to exploring the causes of patients’ struggles, and guiding them to the right tools and if necessary prescribing treatment. We offer online sessions if needed, but also in person. All in all the psychiatrist will help find the right solutions that improve the psychological state of patients.
What are psychotherapy sessions?
Psychotherapy sessions is a term used to express psychiatric consultation to treat mental disorders using the best therapeutic techniques, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, which relies on speech and communication between the patient and a psychiatrist to diagnose the condition, find out the imbalance, and try to accomodate negative thoughts and feelings.
What happens at the first psychiatry consultation session?
In the first session of psychotherapy, the mental health consultant collects information about the patient to get to know them. She explores their way of thinking by asking important questions, through which the doctor determines the most appropriate method for treatment.
The psychiatrist can also determine the destination and goals of treatment. The Psychiatrist is able to roughly anticipate the number of sessions that are needed Usually, the first session takes between 1-3 hours, depending on the patient’s response.
How do I know if I have a mental illness?
There are some signs that indicate that you may have a mental illness:
- Loss of energy, inability to complete routine tasks, difficulties focusing, and a sense of laziness.
- Eating disorder and sudden changes in appetite, either by increasing or losing appetite and love of food, affects body weight and health.
- Excessive illogical thinking, insomnia and sleep disorders as a form of escapism, which negatively affects the person.
- Mood swings, feelings of depression, sadness, love of isolation from friends, and severe emotional and nervous bouts that suddenly turn into joy and pleasure.
- Indifference to daily details, loss of passion, and loss of desire to pursue hobbies and communicate with others.
- Sudden strange and hallucinatory behaviours without the ability to control oneself, as well as the desire to harm oneself and others.
- Self-separation from oneself, detachment from reality and surroundings, and the inability to make any decision due to poor perception.
How many psychotherapy sessions?
The patient can need between 5 – 20 sessions to receive effective and sufficient mental health consultation to recover. The number of sessions may vary depending on how well a patient responds to treatment, and the duration of treatment often exceeds 6 months for a complete recovery for complex cases.
The factors that affect the duration of treatment are:
- The severity of the patient’s symptoms.
- Duration and progression of mental illness.
- The patient’s behaviour with the situations facing him.
- The support the patient gets from his relatives.
What are the types of psychiatry consultations?
- Dynamic psychotherapy
It is a long-term treatment that targets the causes of the disease and works to treat them, through which the doctor identifies the patient’s thinking patterns, behaviours, feelings, and childhood problems that result in unconscious conflicts.
- Behavioural therapy
A practical therapeutic approach based on behavioural theory, in which the psychiatrist attempts to change the unconscious behavioural responses of the patient and improve his reactions and behaviour patterns that cause him psychological and emotional troubles.
- Cognitive therapy
A short-term treatment that focuses on identifying thoughts that affect the patient’s negative convictions, beliefs, and behaviours, and helps to treat and get rid of them, as well as applying new skills that affect the patient’s rational thoughts directly.
- Human therapy
It is a treatment that focuses on the patient’s choices, experiences, and needs, by discussing the problems and difficulties that he is going through and helping him to live his life happily and look at himself positively.
What questions does the psychiatrist ask?
For the psychiatry doctor to understand the patient’s condition and be able to provide psychiatric counselling, the doctor asks some important questions, such as:
- What are the reasons for resorting to a psychiatrist?
- What are your life circumstances, and what do you work into your routine?
- Does anyone in your family suffer from a mental disorder?
- Have you been seeking treatment for a long time?
- What are the goals you want from treatment?
- When did you first notice this mental state?
- Have you ever thought about hurting yourself?
How do I prepare for a psychiatrist consultation?
- Choose a psychological counselling clinic with caution and care; ask about the experience of a psychiatrist; and do not choose at random.
- Take your time to think and make a list of your feelings, questions that come to mind, and pressures to which they are exposed.
- Don’t worry about treatment; don’t think about society’s opinions about psychotherapy, and try to focus only on your problem and treat it.
- Do not be shy about discussing all your concerns with the doctor; explain your problem, the symptoms you feel, and the problems you have experienced and how they have affected you.