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Just responding to the current situation to begin a chat on this. Generally psychiatric illness can be classified into The BAD, The SAD, and the MAD... You can also have a mix of conditions, such as borderline personalities, or a bipolar condition. If one has a serious psy issue, you need treatment by a psychiatrist, who may be assisted by a psychologist. A psychiatrist is a qualified doctor, who can diagnose, and more importantly treat a patient. The treatment can be in the form of words, such as counselling, psychological methods and medical or even ECT: Electroconvulsive treatment A psychologist aids by using non medical methods, such as listening, and active methods like flooding and other ways to help. There are POC (Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics) s to visit. IMH may be too scary or a label for them.... These are Government subsidised clinics nested within the polyclinics. Usually in a quiet corner and they get poly MCs so their bosses won't know otherwise. IIRC, Bedok, Tampines and Geylang poly have it - we had names for them - BePOC, TamPOC and GeyPOC Private help is always available, but it's costly.. but very private. Remember, illness must be correlated with the social context. Eg mediums are part of our society, so a person who claims he / she can talk to the Monkey God isn't necessarily mad. Medications can be taken orally, injected and you also have ECT. Training of a psychiatrist requires someone to take the basic degree, then enter residency for it and receive specialist training. Apart from IMH aka Woodbridge, there is NUH, which has a unit, and now TTSH too. It isn't a glamour practice, but it is needed. Psy illness isn't that uncommon, up to 1 in 150 can have it, just in various forms and at various parts of the spectrum. You can have traits, eg obsessive compulsive traits, eg, checking all your car doors once or twice before you can walk off, but you remain functional, all the way to a disorder, where you can't stop washing your hands, and even end up without skin because of hand washing.

Hi, I'm been looking for Psychology course to go for. looking for those post grad Dip or Specialist Dip course. No need Masters or Bachelor level. I'm already a Hons Biz degree holder. Feel like taking up some Psychology course for self improvement and to understand human behaviour Post grad Dip or Specialist Dip duration like 10-12 months will be good enough. Part time. I saw this organisaton "Academy of Certified Counsellors".. think they are in Park Mall. Are they good? http://www.certifiedcounsellors.org What's the diff between Applied Psychology, Business Psychology, Counselling Psycological, Clinical Psychology? I think Applied Psychology or Business Psychology is more applicable to me. Other schools will be: SMA Aventis School of Mgt (City University of New York) www.aventis.edu.sg I'm not trying to be a qualified licensed Psychologist in the future. I just want to learn more abt human psychology so that i can understand how people think in the mind and deal with people better in workplace. I always feel that there's alot of stuff to learn abt human behavior. though i dun need to be a licensed Psychologist, but i also need to make sure the school that i'm going to is a reputable and recognised one in the field of Psychology. any advise?