1Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Sri. Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences Kulasekharam, KK (Dist), Tamilnadu
2Associate Professor
3Assistant Professor, Anatomy AIMS/BG Nagar, Mandya (Dist), Karnataka
4Professor, Anatomy, Shri. B M Patil Medical College (Deemed University), Vijaypura, Karnataka
*Corresponding author: Dr K Kanesalingavelan Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Sri. Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences Kulasekharam, KK (Dist) Tamilnadu, Email: kanesandr@live.in, Cell No 919443468775
Online published on 24 August, 2016.
120 retired patients are selected and counseled psychiatrically. These are grouped into two, 1. Sixty patients who were directly related to peopleevery day during their service. 2. Sixty patients whowere not directly relatedto people in everyday. In group (1) two major depressive illnesses (33.3%), two anxiety disorders (33.3%) and one paranoid reactive patient (1.6%) and group 2has two sleep disturbances (3.33%) and one dementia(1.6%) patient. Group 1 has 8.3% and group two has 4.9% depressive illness is diagnosed. This study will certainly help the physician and psychiatrist because in the present study, depressive illness associated with carcinoma, cardiac, DM, Strokes are excluded.
Major depression, Paranoid, Anxiety disorders, dementia
