Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

All dreams basically work like psychotherapy because you have to transform your wild nature into human nature. This is why you have many behavioral lessons and numerous explanations about all matters.

The unconscious mind that produces your dreams helps you participate of your psychotherapy and understand what is happening to you. You understand how your brain works and what influences your behavior.

The scientific dream translations help you feel safe because you understand the wise messages of the unconscious mind. You have an internal vision of what is happening in your brain. You understand how you can control your behavior and become strong. You also understand that the information you have is true and fits with many other factors.

For example, when you have dreams about children you ignore or about children you know but who are not your own children, they represent various immature parts of your own personality. If you are an adult, a dream about children is a warning. The children who appeared in your dream are parts of your own personality that didn’t evolve with time. This means that your behavior is immature in many ways.

After having a dream about children, you will understand your immaturity and pay attention to your reactions. You’ll stop acting like a child.

Then, you’ll have a positive dream about intelligent and sensitive people who have helped you in life. These people represent parts of your personality that are intelligent and sensitive like them.

If after having a dream with a negative meaning you have a dream about the same topic with a positive meaning, this means that you are evolving.

Your progress is visible because you see mature and positive people in your second dream. This means that you stopped being immature like you used to be when you had the dream about children. You understood that you have to be serious in order to be respected. You also understood that you must always be very careful and pay attention to all dangers. Now you are not a child.

The wise unconscious mind always shows you the truth in your dreams. You are cured from a mental illness, or you learn how to prevent a mental illness thanks to the unconscious guidance. You learn how to pay attention to all dangers, and how to avoid what is bad.

The unconscious mind is your natural protector. You also learn how to avoid diseases, accidents, and other misfortunes.

You verify that you are always protected thanks to the unconscious guidance because you are saved from trouble numerous times. You recognize your salvation when you see many unexpected problems happening in your reality, and you remember that you could avoid being in a bad situation only because you had a dream warning about this matter. The unconscious mind doesn’t let you fall into hidden traps. Continue Reading

Hopefully, this article will help shed light on this tricky subject and help people to understand what can and cannot happen in a psychiatric hospital.

If you or a loved one are dealing with a mental illness, it is probably likely that you are familiar with hospitalization. But if you are just beginning this journey, you may have a misunderstanding of what to expect once you or your loved one enters the psychiatric hospital.

Mental illness is a chronic, life-long illness. It does not go away but only gets better for a while. Just like many chronic illnesses, treatment may include inpatient and outpatient services to manage the ongoing symptoms. Going into the psychiatric hospital is not going to “fix” the problem. The actual goal of inpatient hospitalization is to stabilize symptoms and keep the patient safe. Medications will be utilized to bring the patient back to a functional state so that outpatient services can step in and take up the care.

Why do you get put into a psychiatric hospital?

Most people end up in a facility when they exhibit symptoms that appear to create a danger to themselves or to others; or they show a decrease in their ability to care for themselves and have no support system.

Access to the facility can be voluntary or, in most cases, it may be involuntary. Maybe the police had to intervene to protect people from harm; maybe the family was afraid for the loved ones well-being. No matter the reason, if there is a danger to self or others an admission to a facility will probably take place.

What do you expect to happen when hospitalized?

Most people still believe the old way is true: you get sick and go into the hospital to get well. That used to be the norm but today that is not even true for physical illnesses. The actual fact today is you are managed at home until your condition deteriorates enough to require hospitalization. You are admitted and stabilized; then you will be returned home with follow-up care instructions. This is a sad state of affairs, but this is how it currently works. This description also works for the mentally ill patient.

If you expect that admission to a facility means you can be held indefinitely, or that you can be made to participate in your care, you are mistaken. Only the courts can take away patients rights, so until the court steps in or until the patient begins to participate in care, all that can happen is for the facility to maintain your safety and monitor you closely for worsening symptoms.

How can you be given medications if you do not want them?

Everyone has the right to refuse treatment and to refuse medications. For a mental health patient, that does not necessarily mean the right to leave the hospital. If there is any reason to be concerned for the safety of yourself or of others, you can be held against your will until the court is made aware and becomes involved.

Even when held against your will, you can still refuse to take medications. However, if your behavior becomes dangerous to yourself or others–you become aggressive or physically assaultive–the doctor can order emergency medications to be administered to calm the situation down and to bring the patient back to a calmer state where they can exhibit more control over their behavior. Continue Reading

Psychiatry is a vast and fascinating field of medicine. Medical doctors who choose to study and specialize in this field are referred to as psychiatrists. This field of medicine focuses on the mind and disorders that may affect it. The training of psychiatrists makes it possible for them to recognize emotional and mental conditions and to treat the effects that these problems are causing in the life of the afflicted individual. Psychiatry brings together the emotional and physical health and well-being of patients. These medical health specialists look at mental illnesses and how they affect the entire body as a whole as opposed to just how they affect the mind.

Within this medical specialty there are areas of subspecialty that a psychiatrist may decide to get additional education and training in so that can work in. These areas include addiction psychiatry, adult, child and adolescent, consultation-liaison, forensic, old age and psychotherapy. Let us look briefly at a few of these specialty areas.

Addiction psychiatry looks at substance abuse and disorders (such as alcohol and drug abuse), as well as gambling and other addictive forms of behavior. The addiction psychiatrist focuses his efforts on studying the biopsychosocial complications that relate to these problems as well as the best courses of treatments. He also looks at ways to prevent these problems from occurring in the future.

The most common and well known area of mental health that psychiatrists deal with is known simply as adult psychiatry. This subspecialty is one where the doctor may work with individuals who suffer from any number of mental illnesses or disorders. Adult psychiatrists frequently work in public settings such as hospitals or mental health centers but they can also be found employed in private settings. Many choose to do a bit of both. These specialists offer primary prevention as well as assessment and treatment. They also aid in helping their patients to recover and to be rehabilitated.

As the name implies the subspecialty for child and adolescent is concerned with youngsters. Mental health practitioners work with babies, as well as children, pre-adolescents, adolescents and their families to solve problems and to offer relevant methods of treatment.

Some of the problems that may be encountered in children and pre-adolescents include behavioral and emotional problems that stem from conflict in the family, a death or disruption in the family or abuse. Psychiatrists also commonly treat children who have been diagnosed with developmental disorders such as autism or ADHD.

They may treat teenagers for some of the same problems as young children. Other common problems that first show themselves during the adolescent years include stress and anxiety disorders (such as obsessive compulsive behavior), depression, anorexia nervosa or bulimia and beginning episodes that signal the onset of a psychosis known as schizophrenia. Continue Reading