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# Dr Shyam Bhat

Holistic Psychiatry, Integrative Medicine, Self-Actualization, Meditation

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- [About](https://www.shyambhat.com/about/) - Dr Shyam K Bhat MD is a Psychiatrist, Integrative Medicine specialist, and writer. Dr Bhat has a rare combination of postgraduate training and American Board certifications in two specialities – Psychiatry (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) and Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine). He is also board certified in Psychosomatic Medicine (ABPN subspeciality),
- [How to Stop Overthinking](https://www.shyambhat.com/how-to-stop-overthinking/) - In this episode of State of Mind, Dr. Shyam Bhat explores the causes and solutions of Overthinking. Overthinking, or Rumination, although common in today's fast-paced world, increases the risk for stress, anxiety, depression, and even physical illness. Freedom from overthinking improves our energy, focus, creativity, and happiness.
- [Deepika Padukone’s Story - Interview | NDTV](https://www.shyambhat.com/deepika-padukones-story-interview-ndtv/) - Deepika Padukone talks about her battle with Depression and her thought behind the initiative ‘The Live Love Laugh Foundation’.
- [Buddha in the City](https://www.shyambhat.com/buddha-in-the-city/) - Dr. Shyam Bhat says it's important for us to forgive others and accept them in our lives, which will spread more joy and happiness in the world. Location : SRCM Heartfulness Meditation Centre, Hyderabad
- [Getting Over Heartbreak](https://www.shyambhat.com/getting-over-heartbreak/) - Getting Over Heartbreak When a relationship ends, it is often painful. In this video, Dr. Shyam Bhat describes what happens in your brain and mind and how you can best get over heartbreak
- [Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children](https://www.shyambhat.com/raising-emotionally-intelligent-children-2/) - Parenting with Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more important than IQ. In this video, Dr. Shyam Bhat shares a few tips on raising high EQ children
- [The Modern Epidemic of Entitlement](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-modern-epidemic-of-entitlement/) - As we become a more individualistic society, young people are more susceptible to disappointment, dissatisfaction and dejection, if they don’t meet often unrealistic expectations. In this video Dr. Shyam Bhat discusses the modern epidemic of entitlement, and how to transcend it.
- [Literati 2016 - Chandigarh](https://www.shyambhat.com/literati-2016-chandigarh/) - Dr. Shyam Bhat discussing over "Mysteries of the Mind" at Literati 2016 with Suparna Saraswati Puri as Moderator.
- [Behind The Mask](https://www.shyambhat.com/behind-the-mask/) - Play your part. But remember who you are. The great psychoanalyst Carl Jung used the term ‘persona’ to describe the social mask that every individual wears—the face that we present to others. Although we aspire to be authentic, society is such that each individual has to learn to modulate their thoughts. And to be healthy
- [Objects of Desire](https://www.shyambhat.com/objects-of-desire/) - You don’t need anything to experience joy You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find You get what you need —The Rolling Stones As a hard-working, ambitious, rational person, you prefer hard facts to fluff. So allow me to share two formulae with you: Dissatisfaction∞Unmet Desires
- [Getting a grip](https://www.shyambhat.com/getting-a-grip/) - Answers present themselves when we observe and accept a difficult situation Often, life will present dilemmas, problems that cannot be resolved with logic or numbers or any of the other concrete measures that you might usually turn to. In these situations, I find that answers usually present themselves when we can truly observe and accept the difficult
- [Subjective nature of truth](https://www.shyambhat.com/subjective-nature-of-truth/) - Speaking the truth is not always easy and may not always be the right course of action either. The ambiguous nature of the moral order of the universe is apparent in the famous story of Krishna’s role in the death of Drona. You probably know the story well: Drona is plundering through the Pandava troops
- [Don’t Fear, Celebrate Life](https://www.shyambhat.com/dont-fear-celebrate-life/) - LIFE IS SHORT WHILE OFFERING INFINITE POSSIBILITY. AND, DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE END TO START CELEBRATING LIFE PERSON 1: He has been anxious all his life. He is afraid of fl ying, of heights, of women, of spiders, of water, and sometimes even of himself if he catches sight of his face in the mirror. His is a terrible
- [The Carpenter and the Woodcutter: A fable](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-carpenter-and-the-woodcutter-a-fable-2/) - Pursue recognition and you will lose yourself. Define your own success. Be free. Ramappa decided to take up carpentry one day. He said, “It’s better than simply chopping wood and giving it to others to make money.” “What do you know about carpentry?” his family asked. “I can learn,” he replied. And so he began,
- [Don’t be driven. Be the driver](https://www.shyambhat.com/dont-be-driven-be-the-driver/) - Are you being pushed towards success by a force that is not entirely under your control? You are probably the sort of high achiever who has little time for frivolous nonsense. Sure, you might party hard on weekends, perhaps play a round of golf or two, spend some ‘quality time’ with the family, but for
- [Forever young](https://www.shyambhat.com/forever-young/) - The perception of age causes ageing. And our perception is shaped by our mind. It is our inner world that has to be conquered. My friend recently told me about his uncle who, at age 60, has begun a regular regimen of facials. Apparently, his aunt was in tears because her husband had spent more
- [Nobody Knows The New Rules](https://www.shyambhat.com/nobody-knows-the-new-rules/) - Unlike the rule of law, the rules of social conduct are often strictly obeyed. These “rules” ,obviously unwritten and silent,dictate the gamut of social behaviour, from socially appropriate body language, to gestures, mannerisms, pitch of voice in a particular social context, to clothing, dress,etiquette, and accent. Normally, the majority of people in any group or
- [Rahu will get you](https://www.shyambhat.com/rahu-will-get-you/) - “Come in, come in. Sit down,” the astrologer said, his eyes hidden by the reflection of sunlight on his glasses. I was here to test a long standing hypothesis of mine -that astrologers were psychotherapists in another form, providing comfort and solace to those who sought them out. To test the hypothesis, I thought it
- [Take Back The Mango](https://www.shyambhat.com/take-back-the-mango/) - There’s the messy way to eat a mango, and there is the wrong way. Unfortunately, I see an increasing number of people eating it the wrong way: any method that requires the use of a knife, a fork, or a spoon – cutting it and scooping it out, slicing and dicing it into cubes and
- [Pigs Flu](https://www.shyambhat.com/pigs-flu/) - The most frightening thing about the swine flu epidemic is the alacrity with which a segment of the populace began wearing masks. For all I know, you might have a mask on right now. If so, then please do yourself a favour and get rid of it. It’s useless. Firstly, if you bought the mask
- [The Mark of a Man](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-mark-of-a-man/) - The video that might signal the end of ND Tiwari’s political career could easily have launched him on an entirely different, and arguably more important, career. If he had played it right, ND could have been an inspirational figure for the old, the infirm, and the sexually dormant all around the country. Across the globe,
- [Elevator Rules](https://www.shyambhat.com/elevator-rules/) - A few years back, I was in a lift in a hotel in London. There were four or five of us, staring up at the numbers, or at the door, lost in our thoughts as we waited for the lift to get to our floor. On the second floor a young man walked in. “Hiya,
- [The Element of Danger](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-element-of-danger/) - Shortly after the terrorist attack that Americans refer to as 9/11, a professor I was working with at a university in southern Illinois told me that it would probably be better if I didn’t venture out at night for a few weeks, “until things settle down”. Overnight, images of the brown-skinned hijackers, and of Osama
- [Keeping it Real](https://www.shyambhat.com/keeping-it-real/) - Sartre would have been fascinated by the social workings of contemporary Bangalore. Heidegger would have been inspired beyond insanity. And Socrates, I can just see him now, walking around the social scene urging everyone to look within, saying, with a wave of his wine glass, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” “Authenticity”, defined as
- [Super Speed Dating (or the Swayamvar is Back)](https://www.shyambhat.com/super-speed-dating-or-the-swayamvar-is-back/) - What is common to a Rabbi and dating? Sounds like the start to a bad joke, but it is in fact a serious question, one that you probably don’t know the answer to, unless you googled it or you happen to be Arul Mani. So allow me tell you the answer: speed dating. That’s right.
- [Accent Envy](https://www.shyambhat.com/accent-envy/) - An old friend of mine called me the other day from London, after we reconnected on Facebook. “Shyam,” the voice said. “How are you? This is Jay, It’s been a long time.” It took me a few seconds to realise that this was indeed Jay, my Malayali friend who had previously spoken with a mild
- [They Just Can’t Kill the Beast](https://www.shyambhat.com/they-just-cant-kill-the-beast/) - I went to a pub recently after a long hiatus, and they were playing the same songs that I got drunk to in my turbulent adolescent years in pubs all along MG Road. “Retro night?” I asked the bartender. He shrugged and smiled enigmatically. I contemplated the possibility that a compilation of these songs had
- [The Cost of Medicine](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-cost-of-medicine/) - It is obvious that the patient is dying. She is 92 years old with “multiple medical problems”—so many that my tired intern mind can barely list them on morning rounds. “History of metastatic colon cancer, diabetes, advanced dementia, congestive heart failure. . .” But the family wants everything done—so we do our job efficiently and
- [No Further History](https://www.shyambhat.com/no-further-history/) - I knocked on Xao’s door. He greeted me in a flat voice, a bespectacled man who looked younger than his 33 years. I tried to picture him as he was in the ER all those years ago: This is a 24-year-old Chinese male University School of Medicine,brought in by the police after he went on
- [Busman’s Holiday](https://www.shyambhat.com/busmans-holiday/) - Rodriguez was liberal with the tequila, which probably accounted for the fact that I was talking as much as anyone else at the party, even though I know only 2 words of Spanish, one of which is hola. Language barriers notwithstanding, I was having a great time. “Gracias,” I said, thanking Rafael, a friend of
- [The Baron and the Medical Student](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-baron-and-the-medical-student/) - Kate did not want to specialize in psychiatry. “It just doesn’t grab me,” she said. I appreciated her candor, since most medical students profess a passing interest in psychiatry, or do so at least until their evaluations are in. I knew the statistics—less than 5% of medical students choose to specialize in psychiatry. We were,
- [Days Like This](https://www.shyambhat.com/days-like-this/) - I feel terrible,” she said. “I can’t sleep, I cry all the time, and I don’t want to do anything around the house.” Her symptoms seemed mind-numbingly mundane. I’d heard a dozen similar stories in the past week alone, probably thousands over the years, and I had to remind myself that for her, this was
- [The Death of a Buddha](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-death-of-a-buddha/) - Buddha (Sanskrit): “Awakened” or “that which has become aware” Let us suppose that you, a psychiatrist from 21st-century America,are transported back in time to the 5th century B.C., to a prosperous kingdom in northern India. You are a physician and, as is common in those times and in those parts, long before it becomes a
- [Until Death Do Us Part](https://www.shyambhat.com/until-death-do-us-part/) - Sometimes, my primary care encounters teach me far more about the complexities of being human, and about life, than any psychotherapy session. I look at the name on the chart before walking into the examination room. It’s Mr. Carlson, and the nurse has noted that he has had pain in his abdomen for the last
- [Contagion](https://www.shyambhat.com/contagion/) - What made you want to leave?” I asked. “I just didn’t think the doctors cared,” he replied, referring to the orthopedic surgeons, although by all accounts they’d done an excel-lent job of fixing his hip. The surgeons had frantically consulted us, ostensibly for depression, but probably because they thought he was a “difficult” patient: the
- [Sweat](https://www.shyambhat.com/sweat/) - Freud probably never participated in a sweat lodge ceremony, or he would have had quite a bit to say about it. There was something distinctly oedipal about the medicine woman’s description of the ceremony: “The sweat lodge,” she said, “is like the womb of Mother Earth.” Unlike the more conventional conferences I’d attended in the
- [American Idols](https://www.shyambhat.com/american-idols/) - I enjoy watching “American Idol,” and I have not missed a single episode I this season. I suspect I watch the show for the same reasons that most people do—not for the singing, which frankly is a distraction, but for the human drama: the joy, the hopes, the dreams, and, in many cases, the pain
- [The Paranoia of Prejudice](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-paranoia-of-prejudice/) - We’ve flown 24 hours, from Bangalore to Chicago. My 6-month old son has slept most of the way in a bassinet, but my wife and I, both battling a nasty cough, are exhausted. Before we can catch our connecting flight to Springfield, we have to first clear immigration. The officer looks at our passports, asks
- [Simple Fools](https://www.shyambhat.com/simple-fools/) - Ten years ago, as an intern, I was sent to a small village about 60 miles from Mangalore for a mandatory “rural posting.” It was a foreign world and I, a young and relatively affluent city-dwelling fellow, thought that the month was a terrible imposition. One evening, I was walking around the village market and
- [Where Experts Are Many](https://www.shyambhat.com/where-experts-are-many/) - Conversation 1 The resident handed me the phone. “The psych charge nurse thinks the patient should stay in the ICU,” he said. I glanced at my watch. My outpatient clinic was in 15 minutes. We had had a hard time convincing the family and the patient about the need for psychiatric admission, and now this. I
- [My First Day](https://www.shyambhat.com/my-first-day/) - Dr. Venkatesh, Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Department, had a thick mustache and a permanently disgruntled attitude. “What is schizophrenia, I say?” he asked by way of greeting, as we stood in his small office, sweating in the Bangalore summer. “Sir,” I ventured, “it’s a psychotic disorder in which there are delusions, hallucina-tions,
- [Flat World Psychiatry](https://www.shyambhat.com/flat-world-psychiatry/) - Earlier this year, I was in Bangalore on a brief vacation, eager to see India’s recent economic progress first hand. I was not disappointed—new flyovers, crowded shopping malls, gleaming glass buildings—the city was almost unrecognizable. One pleasant evening, I was sipping a particularly tart Mojito at one of Bangalore’s many new nightspots. The place was
- [How Many Psychiatrists Does It Take?](https://www.shyambhat.com/how-many-psychiatrists-does-it-take/) - The dinner was excellent: gently seared tuna and succulent crab cakes. The symposium was not as enjoyable, but still, this was a good start to my stay in Philadelphia. I had flown in that morning for the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, my first experience at such a large conference. My room for
- [Delusions of Life](https://www.shyambhat.com/delusions-of-life/) - The gray-haired Irishman walks around the wards quietly, avoiding eye contact. He touches the walls, as if to reassure himself of the world around him. He says very little, and the little that he says I find difficult to understand. I have been in England for only a month, and I assume it is his
- [Breaking free - being yourself in the new India](https://www.shyambhat.com/breaking-free-being-yourself-in-the-new-india/) - Dr Shyam Bhat is a psychiatrist and physician. He has a special interest in identity and culture. He is a published writer and was host of Heartline, India's first live call in radio show with a psychiatrist.
- [Meditation - The Single Most Important Skill Needed Today](https://www.shyambhat.com/meditation-the-single-most-important-skill-needed-today/) - Despite all our technological and scientific advancements, we have never been more miserable as a species.Yet the solution to this lies inside us. In this insightful talk, Dr. Shyam Bhat shares how meditation can help overcome all problems plaguing the human race in this age of constant hustle and bustle. Dr Shyam Bhat is a
- [Love and heartbreak in the new India](https://www.shyambhat.com/love-and-heartbreak-in-the-new-india/) - Love is one of the most beautiful experience in one's life. Over the years, the feeling of heartbreaks has intensified because the way the newer generation has felt the relationships is totally different from the earlier generations. Dr Shyam K Bhat MD is a Psychiatrist, Integrative Medicine specialist, and writer. He has postgraduate training and
- [How the Mind Constructs Reality | Capgras Syndrome](https://www.shyambhat.com/how-the-mind-constructs-reality-capgras-syndrome/) - What can clinical conditions such as the rare "Capgras Syndrome" or the delusion of imposters, teach us about how our own minds.
- [State of Mind with Dr Shyam Bhat, Episode 1](https://www.shyambhat.com/state-of-mind-with-dr-shyam-bhat-episode-1/) - In this episode, an alarming statistic that highlights the urgency of India's mental health crisis, and a discussion of why the western ideal of "self-love" and self-esteem is unhealthy, and what we can gain from insights from eastern contemplative traditions.
- [State of Mind with Dr Shyam Bhat, Episode 2](https://www.shyambhat.com/state-of-mind-with-dr-shyam-bhat-episode-2/) - Touching the feet of elders - a cultural relic, or psychologically healthy? Dr Shyam explores this and discusses the power of surrender.
- [The Cerebellum and Emotion](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-cerebellum-and-emotion-2/) - Until recently, the cerebellum was thought to be only involved in balance and co-ordination. In this video, Dr Shyam Bhat shares new evidence that demonstrates the role of the cerebellum in emotional balance.
- [The Modern Epidemic of Entitlement](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-modern-epidemic-of-entitlement-2/) - As we become a more individualistic society, young people are more susceptible to disappointment, dissatisfaction and dejection, if they don’t meet often unrealistic expectations. In this video Dr. Shyam Bhat discusses the modern epidemic of entitlement, and how to transcend it.
- [Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children](https://www.shyambhat.com/raising-emotionally-intelligent-children-3/) - Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more important than IQ. In this video, Dr. Shyam Bhat shares a few tips on raising high EQ children.
- [Getting Over Heartbreak](https://www.shyambhat.com/getting-over-heartbreak-2/) - When a relationship ends, it is often painful. In this video, Dr. Shyam Bhat describes what happens in your brain and mind and how you can best get over heartbreak.
- [Being Yourself in the New India](https://www.shyambhat.com/being-yourself-in-the-new-india-2/) - In this Tedx talk, I discuss the challenges and opportunities of life in the new India; why existential questions have to be answered, and why we must create a new form of compassionate individualism.
- [Progressive Muscle Relaxation](https://www.shyambhat.com/progressive-muscle-relaxation/) - According to medical literature, this technique was developed in the US by Dr Edmund Jacobson. Of course, this technique has been in use for centuries in the east, as a preparatory phase for expanding consciousness. Try this technique anytime you are feeling tense, keyed up, or unable to sleep.
- [Relaxation and Mindfulness](https://www.shyambhat.com/relaxation-and-mindfulness/) - A brief mindfulness and relaxation exercise. Practice it everyday for best benefits.
- [Are You Analyzing Me?](https://www.shyambhat.com/are-you-analyzing-me/) - I was at a party in my first month of residency talking to this young lady, I a legal secretary. “So, you’re a psychiatrist?” she asked. “No, I am in residency,” I demurred, but she dismissed that with an elegant wave of her hand, and asked me, somewhat flirtatiously, “Are you analyzing me?” I was
- [Being Yourself in the New India](https://www.shyambhat.com/being-yourself-in-the-new-india/) - Being Yourself in the New India In this Tedx talk, I discuss the challenges and opportunities of life in the new India; why existential questions have to be answered, and why we must create a new form of compassionate individualism.
- [Anxiety Today](https://www.shyambhat.com/anxiety-today/) - The evening news is blaring and Arnab Goswami is shouting in his trademark manner – Why?! We need that question answered! – but his face is incongruously impassive. (His indignation seems superficial – is there a weariness to his hysteria?) Now the panelists are screaming like a pack of rabid hyenas. News tickers below the
- [The Difficulty of being Rahul Gandhi](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-difficulty-of-being-rahul-gandhi/) - I am watching Rahul Gandhi’s interview with Arnab Goswami. It’s an emotional experience. At times I find myself angered on Rahul’s behalf, and want to protect him from the big bad interviewer. But Arnab seems to be holding back – compared to his usual aggressive bombast, he is gentler with the young Gandhi, displaying rare
- [The Running Man](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-running-man/) - Does it seem that you are running from morning to night, always running, in pursuit of your dreams? Do you have to do that? Can you achieve your goals without running?
- [Integrating the Mind, Brain, Body, and Spirit](https://www.shyambhat.com/integrating-the-mind-brain-body-and-spirit/) - In contemporary psychiatry, the emphasis is usually on biological aspects of the illness. Psychiatrists study how the brain changes during an illness and what kinds of medicines are needed to normalize brain chemistry. This has not always been the case – Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychiatry was a neurologist by training, but he
- [You Are Neo](https://www.shyambhat.com/you-are-neo/) - “You take the blue pill. The story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe…whatever you want to believe. “You take the red pill, and you will see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember. All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.” – Paraphrased from the movie The Matrix You’ve seen the now
- [Lessons From Felix](https://www.shyambhat.com/lessons-from-felix/) - “It’s kind of an awkward view because you’ve never seen a black sky. And at that moment, you realise you’ve accomplished something really big.” Felix Baumgartner On October 14th, Felix Baumgartner, a 43 year old Austrian broke the sound barrier and the free-fall record by jumping from a balloon more than 39 kilometers in the
- [You Are a Flowing River](https://www.shyambhat.com/you-are-a-flowing-river/) - “Don’t push the river; it flows by itself” Fritz Perls The self is fluid, and constantly changing, said learned Eastern philosophers of yore. Your thoughts come and go, emotions change, and although you think of yourself as the same person across time, actually you are never the same. In fact, in some ways, you have
- [Kill Your Darlings](https://www.shyambhat.com/kill-your-darlings/) - William Faulkner famously advised writers to edit fearlessly, to remove particularly those sentences that they loved. Faulkner knew that the narrative and cohesiveness of a novel is ruined by sentences that are incongruent, no matter how beautifully written. Kill your darlings, he said. If Faulkner were a psychiatrist, he would have said the same thing
- [Living Lighter](https://www.shyambhat.com/living-lighter/) - We all have expectations and demands from life. When they are not met, we feel sad, angry and hurt. For many people still, unfortunately, this sense of deprivation is real, and tragic – those who don’t have food, water or shelter. But for a growing number of people in the new India, this sense of
- [The Clearing](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-clearing/) - Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. Rumi In order to change unhealthy behaviour, we have to first acknowledge to ourselves that the behaviour is unhealthy. We have to say to ourselves, “What I have been doing all along is hurting me, or those around me.” This
- [New Year’s Renewal](https://www.shyambhat.com/new-years-renewal/) - Forget about resolutions you are not going to keep. Try renewal instead Depending on your perspective, Time is infinite and multidimensional. Or Time is linear (with a past, present, and future) and finite. Our calendar, our clocks, hours minutes, days, years – these are constructs, we made these to organize our world, so we can
- [The River](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-river/) - When you find yourself, you will not find an object. You will not find something that you can point to and say, “This is who I am.” When you find yourself, you will find a flowing river.
- [Life is Imperfection](https://www.shyambhat.com/life-is-imperfection/) - Intentions are never enough. I have not updated this blog for over two months despite my best intentions. Almost every one of us makes plans that are never executed, resolutions that are dead on arrival – competing priorities and interests, the lack of time and energy, one day passes into the next and our plans
- [Sticks and Stones: Facebook Suicide](https://www.shyambhat.com/sticks-and-stones-facebook-suicide/) - India has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, perhaps the highest in the 20 – 35 age group. But our laws on suicide are archaic and frankly, ridiculous. In India, a person who attempts suicide is a criminal – according to section 309, “Whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act
- [Why care?](https://www.shyambhat.com/why-care/) - Why care what I think about you? What I like about you are qualities that I value in myself. What I don’t like about you are qualities that I dislike in myself. My liking or disliking of you is mostly about me, and very little about you.
- [Primal Scream](https://www.shyambhat.com/primal-scream/) - I was driving through Bangalore, past a few men riding the kind of expensive bikes favored by the weekend cyclist, but instead of streamlined Lumen helmets, Gandhi topis on their heads. A few kilometers away, nearer Freedom Park, I negotiated the car past a crowd of about 50 protestors on motorbikes, a few trailing behind
- [Crossroads](https://www.shyambhat.com/crossroads/) - A recent WHO study stated that India has the highest number of depressed people in the World – about 9% of people in India had an extended period of depression within their lifetime and 36% suffered from what is called a major depressive episode, depression that lasts for a smaller period. While there were certainly
- [You Are Not a Patient](https://www.shyambhat.com/you-are-not-a-patient/) - Look, I dislike glib new-ageisms, and touchy feely cliches as much as the next person. But this I know: As a physician and psychiatrist, I help people rediscover their own inner source of healing. I facilitate a person’s journey to wellness. My treatment is to help the brave, the courageous people who come to my
- [Insight](https://www.shyambhat.com/insight/) - She looked at the mirror and saw herself looking back. It seemed as if she were being observed, and a bit critically at that. She reminded herself, “Those are my eyes looking at me. It is I who is doing the observing.” For a moment, a glimpse of the truth. Then, she closed her eyes
- [Brief Encounters with the Zen Master #3](https://www.shyambhat.com/brief-encounters-with-the-zen-master-3/) - Q: What is my purpose? I do this and I do that but I don’t know what I really want do. A: Follow your heart and you will find your purpose. Q: Man, seriously? That’s all you got? That was my fortune cookie last week. A: I found my truth in a hallmark card.
- [SOAR](https://www.shyambhat.com/soar/) - After my last post on decision making, I got a lot of emails. Being “stuck” seems to be a recurring theme – many people feel like victims of their situation and find it challenging to make a positive change. Usually in these situations, a therapist might try a cognitive approach – getting the person to
- [Difficult Decisions](https://www.shyambhat.com/difficult-decisions/) - Sometimes I cannot make a decision, especially when it seems like there’s no good choice. How to make the right decision? Can you please help me improve my decision making ability? Thanks KG Mumbai Dear KG, I am reminded of the time when a therapy client said to me, “The time for inaction is over,”
- [Ashwathama is Dead](https://www.shyambhat.com/ashwathama-is-dead/) - Speaking the truth is not always easy, and may not always be the right course of action either. The ambiguous nature of the moral order of the universe first became apparent to me when I first heard the famous story of Krishna’s role in the death of Drona. If you want to refresh your memory,
- [Your Someday is Today](https://www.shyambhat.com/your-someday-is-today/) - Dream all you want. But put it to action. Many people die with their dreams still in their heads and hearts. My “someday” never happened, they would tell us. Why do so many people wait? What prevents people from acting on their dreams? Most people cite practical obstacles such as the lack of money or
- [What Motivates Us](https://www.shyambhat.com/what-motivates-us/) - I recently read Daniel Pink’s thought provoking book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.” If you can’t get your hands on the book, check out Dan Pink’s TED talk on the same topic. Here’s the link. In his book, Pink reminds us that we are not motivated by the old school carrot and
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- [Brief Encounters with the Zen Master #1](https://www.shyambhat.com/brief-encounters-with-the-zen-master-1/) - Man: “My life sucks.” Zen Master: “Your life is your creation.” Man:”So you mean my life sucks because of what I did?” Zen Master:”‘My life sucks’ is your perspective.” Man: “You mean my life is awesome?” Zen Master: “You could have that perspective if you chose.” Man: “But you said that my life is my
- [Integrative Stress Management: Part 1](https://www.shyambhat.com/integrative-stress-management-part-1/) - Q: “Can you please tell me some integrative treatments for stress?” RK, Mumbai A: By “stress”, I am assuming you mean the emotional effects of stressful conditions. An integrative approach to stress would have to begin by an exploration of the causes and effects of stress in your life. Body: What is your lifestyle like?
- [The Moment](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-moment/) - This story is intended to be a sort of Rorschach, if you will. Read it and interpret it and your interpretation might help you understand your unconscious. Or not. They stood out in the open, looking up at the battle in the sky. “You afraid of dying?” she asked him. “No,” he said, although he
- [The Emptiness of the Soul](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-emptiness-of-the-soul/) - If I had my way, I would prevent all my patients from reading Kierkegaard. Justin (not his real name) is my age, 37, and has contemplated suicide for most of his life. Then a week ago, he says he climbed onto a bridge and was going to jump onto the oncoming traffic, but then decided
- [The Perils of “Past Life Regression”](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-perils-of-past-life-regression/) - Q: What is your opinion on past life regression therapy? RT, Bangalore A: Indulge in it, if you must. Just don’t take it too seriously. After all, “past life regression therapy” is a treatment based on a delusion. The person practicing this “method”, makes 2 presumptions: a) That reincarnation is a fact b) That memories
- [Expansion](https://www.shyambhat.com/expansion/) - All of us have an “internal subjective space”, the world of our internal experiences – of thoughts, emotions, perceptions, and the interpretations of these perceptions. Usually, people know where this internal space begins and where it ends – their “ego boundaries” are said to be intact. (I should emphasize that the word “ego” means very
- [We Don’t Know: A Koan](https://www.shyambhat.com/we-dont-know-a-koan/) - “We Don’t Know”. Intriguing name for a restaurant. “What don’t you know?” I asked the waiter. He smiled in what I think was supposed to be an enigmatic manner. “We don’t know anything, Sir.” “Ok,” I said. I was starving. “Can I get the menu please?” He gave me a large leather bound menu. Except
- [Freud Meets Patanjali: Integrative Psychology Part 1](https://www.shyambhat.com/freud-meets-patanjali-integrative-psychology-part-1/) - (Excerpted from my Medscape.com Blog for physicians) In this series, I hope to demystify and destigmatize eastern approaches to psychological health. To most western trained physicians, eastern conceptualizations of the body and the mind must seem like superstition or conjecture. The recent wave of new age commercialization of these ancient concepts has not helped. “Mind,
- [The Fear of Failure](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-fear-of-failure/) - Q: I am a BE dropout, worked for few BPOs, now unemployed and I don’t know what to do and i am very frustrated with life, always brooding about the lost opportunities and a lack lustre future. How do I get rid of the fear of failure? A: If you believe that you have a
- [The Carpenter and the Woodcutter: A Fable](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-carpenter-and-the-woodcutter-a-fable/) - Ramappa decided to take up carpentry one day. “It’s better than simply chopping wood and giving it to others to make money,” he said. “What do you know about carpentry?” his family asked. “I can learn,” he replied. And so he began, toiling in his shed, trying to shape wood into a chair, or a
- [Frankl](https://www.shyambhat.com/frankl/) - I recently reread Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”. My favorite passage from the book: “The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In
- [Niyama: The Greater Plan](https://www.shyambhat.com/niyama-the-greater-plan/) - When life does not go according to plan, and it so often doesn’t, you feel distressed: disappointment, stress, anxiety, worry, fatigue, irritation, anger, frustration. The more detailed your plan, the more invested you are in it, the worse you feel when it doesn’t work out. And when the plan doesn’t work out, you make it
- [Embracing Infinity: The Meaning of the Word “Nirvikalpa”](https://www.shyambhat.com/embracing-infinity-the-meaning-of-the-word-nirvikalpa/) - When I tell people about Nirvikalpa: The Center for Human Potential, I’m often asked what the word “Nirvikalpa” means. I usually answer, “Beyond the limitations of the mind”. Sometimes I am met with an incredulous or surprised look. After all, most of us have come to believe that the mind is our greatest asset, and
- [His Excellency](https://www.shyambhat.com/his-excellency/) - I passed through Dubai recently, and noticed that almost every Emirati in the news is a “His Highness” or a “His Excellency”. (I am not sure what it takes to be royalty in these parts, but when it comes to honorofics, one expects a degree of restraint.) Anyway, I read this story in the Gulf
- [The Zoo or the Wild?](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-zoo-or-the-wild/) - f a developing country is the wild, then a developed country is a zoo. The zoo looks like the real thing, only more ordered. The temperature is regulated. The watering hole is never empty. The food arrives on time. And the predators are kept in check. In the wild, the animal eats what it kills.
- [The Fisherman’s Son](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-fishermans-son/) - Here’s a piece of trivia ( the sort that if you shared with a member of the KQA , you would get, “Everyone knows that, man!”) : According to his biography, Sunil Gavaskar was exchanged with a fisherman’s son – some kind of confusion about the crib – but an uncle retrieved him just in
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- [The Hazards of Hope](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-hazards-of-hope/) - Hope is a deeply draining emotion. It pretends to sustain us, while depleting the joy of the present moment. Hope is the wish for a better future. Optimism is a belief that a better future will occur. Hope is a life spent in anticipation. Optimism is a life lived in preparation. Hope is a life
- [The Truth, Obscured](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-truth-obscured/) - “A lie told often enough becomes the truth,” said Lenin. But what happens to the truth when it’s repeated often enough? The first time someone said, “Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone,” the words must have had quite an impact. The freshness of the phrasing, the newness of the
- [The Mirror](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-mirror/) - The same place can look lively when you feel good, crowded when you are tired, hostile when you feel threatened, and welcoming when you are secure. Our feelings about the world reveal as much about ourselves as they do about the world.
- [Our Brain is Wired](https://www.shyambhat.com/our-brain-is-wired/) - A post from my Medscape blog for psychiatrists: I just read a story on MSNBC about grammar vigilantes. The story says that those who are sticklers about grammar, spelling, and punctuation, have become even more fastidious because of all the stress in their lives. ( Hope they are not reading this blog.) The article is
- [The Patient is Unresponsible](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-patient-is-unresponsible/) - “This patient has no responsibility,” the resident said. Interesting, I thought. Responsibility. Not a word I heard often anymore, at least not since high school, when I was occasionally accused of lacking it. So what did this young psychiatrist mean exactly – no “responsibility”? Depending on cultural norms, I suppose there could be 2 broad
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- [The Nietzsche Syndrome](https://www.shyambhat.com/the-nietzsche-syndrome/) - “Do what you like, it’s not going to make a difference. I will kill myself.” “You sound determined.” “Life’s not for me.” “How do you mean?” “I just don’t want it.” “What’s a typical day like for you?” “I wake up in the morning, then I walk 4 miles. That’s crazy, right, that I want
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- [Mojo Fallin’](https://www.shyambhat.com/mojo-fallin/) - Just saw this video of a McCain rally. Check it out. A funny senior moment, but there’s more to this video. Notice how McCain says, “Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania recently.” He says it with feigned anger, then pauses and smiles. Not to to get all Freudian
- [Not That Kind of Indian](https://www.shyambhat.com/not-that-kind-of-indian/) - It’s the oldest oak tree in the neighbourhood, or so the previous owner told me and I have no reason to doubt him. It stands 50 feet high, and like the iron pillar of New Delhi, so wide that you cannot put your arms around it. But it wasn’t looking too healthy, and so i
- [Alphabet Threat](https://www.shyambhat.com/alphabet-threat/) - “Watch it, Rishi,” I said to my almost 2 year old son as we were walking down the road. “That’s a bee, it might bite you.” “Bee biting,” he repeated, then looked up at me and asked in a sad voice, “‘A’ also biting?” Originally Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 8:08am
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