Kishore Chandiramani – Undo Your Stress

How to Manage Your Everyday Stress – Part One

by Kishore Chandiramani June 7, 2021 0

My name is Kishore Chandiramani and I work as a psychiatrist in Staffordshire, England. Today we are going to talk about how to manage your everyday stress and I would like to begin with defining stress. How to define stress and for this, I have picked up a very simplistic definition of stress. The stress can be defined as the gap between the demands placed on us on one hand and our abilities to cope with it on the other. If the demands are excessive or too many and our abilities to cope with them are low then we are…

How to Manage Your Everyday Stress – Part Two

by Kishore Chandiramani June 7, 2021 0

My name is Kishore Chandiramani and I work as a psychiatrist in Staffordshire, England. Today we are going to discuss how to manage your everyday stress Part Two. In the last session we talked about how to look at and adjust our life goals so that we can bring down the demands placed on us. Today we are going to discuss how we can increase our coping abilities. Before we have an in-depth discussion about our coping abilities, I would like to point out that a reasonable level of coping ability is given to all of us. Learning coping skills…

How to Manage Your Everyday Stress – Part Three

by Kishore Chandiramani June 7, 2021 0

My name is Kishore Chandiramani and I work as a psychiatrist in Staffordshire, England. We are going to talk about how to manage your everyday stress Part Three. I am going to discuss a model of mind that can help us make sense of our stress and its management. I would like you to visualise your mind in terms of two broad categories: Experiencing self. Observing self. This concept has been taken from psychoanalytic traditions in scientific psychology. The experiencing self is a part of your mind that is involved in experiencing an emotion and this experience can happen in…

Understanding Existentialism(audio clip)

by Kishore Chandiramani June 7, 2021 0

Understanding Existentialism Image courtesy : https://owlcation.com/humanities/Existentialism-Explained

Understanding Existentialism(write up)

by Kishore Chandiramani June 7, 2021 0

Existentialism is a branch of philosophy that gives more importance to the lived experience of people rather than any theoretical understanding of human life. Paul Tillich, a Jewish American existential thinker, has described his brush with existentialism. He said he had read up a lot on existentialism, and he saw himself as an expert, but he truly became an existentialist only during the 2nd world war when he saw innumerable dead bodies of his fellow beings strewn all around him, and all his theoretical understanding of human life became irrelevant in that moment, and in that very moment he became…

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Score	Depression severity	Comments
0-4	Minimal or none	Monitor; may not require treatment
5-9	Mild	Use clinical judgment (symptom duration, functional impairment) to determine necessity of treatment
10-14	Moderate
15-19	Moderately severe	Warrants active treatment with psychotherapy, medications, or combination
20-27	Severe

Score	Symptom Severity	Comments
7-10	Moderate	Possible clinically significant condition
11-15	Moderately Severe	Recomended consult doctor
>15	Severe	Active treatment probably warranted

How to Manage Your Everyday Stress – Part One

How to Manage Your Everyday Stress – Part Two

How to Manage Your Everyday Stress – Part Three

Understanding Existentialism(audio clip)

Understanding Existentialism(write up)

PHQ-9 Score Summary

GAD-7 Score Summary