Psychiatrist

Depression is among the most treatable conditions in medicine. Mild cases often respond to structured therapy alone; moderate-to-severe depression does best with medication plus therapy. Improvement typically begins in three to four weeks, and we track it with standard scales, not guesswork.

Racing heart, chest tightness and breathlessness send many people to cardiologists first, anxiety is often diagnosed last, after every scan is normal. CBT techniques, breathing retraining and medication where needed bring panic under control, usually within weeks.

OCD responds to a specific combination: SSRI medication at adequate doses and exposure-response-prevention (ERP) therapy. Intrusive thoughts are symptoms, not character, patients are often profoundly relieved just to learn the condition has a name and a treatment.

Bipolar disorder is frequently misdiagnosed as depression for years. Careful history, including the energetic 'high' phases patients rarely report, guides mood-stabiliser treatment, and with the right maintenance plan most patients live entirely normal lives.

ADHD is neither bad parenting nor laziness, it's a difference in attention regulation with excellent treatments. Evaluation uses standardised scales plus school or workplace input; treatment combines behavioural strategies with medication where genuinely indicated.

The gold-standard treatment for chronic insomnia is CBT-I (cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia), not tablets. We fix the behaviours and worries that maintain sleeplessness, use medication briefly and strategically if at all, and screen for apnea and restless legs.

Dependence is a medical condition with medical treatments: craving-reduction medication, structured counselling and relapse-prevention planning. We work at your pace, involve family only with your consent, and treat relapse as data, not failure.

When stress starts breaking sleep, mood, temper or health, it has crossed from normal to clinical. Short, structured therapy blocks, typically four to eight sessions, rebuild boundaries, thinking patterns and recovery habits that actually hold under pressure.