r/psychologists_india

I have a lot of insight and understanding, I even know all the things I need to do and am working on them. I understand my patterns very well and use typical basic coping skills and am quite aware as a Psychology student. 

In therapy I'm looking to have emotional support and changing how I function day to day and with my executive dysfunction, nervous system sensitivity, attachment issues and having more agency in life. I really need a therapist who can collaboratively structure the session towards implementing change, instead of just letting me ramble on. 

As a student my budget can afford 200-500rs per session. Other therapist criteria I have: must be anti AI in therapy, systems aware and understand individuals to be part of a broader sociocultural context. 

If you are a fit or know someone who is, please let me know.

I live with a complex, overlapping picture — chronic pain and hypermobility (fibromyalgia/HSD spectrum), CPTSD from childhood, and long-unaddressed ADHD traits that had been masked or misattributed to anxiety for most of my life. Every previous provider treated these in isolation. Medication trials failed repeatedly (SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs) with no one stepping back to ask why.

The collapse that started it:
Last year I lost a close family member (my sister-in-law) suddenly and unexpectedly. That grief didn’t stay contained — it triggered old childhood trauma, and I started having flashbacks and re-experiencing episodes on top of the grief itself. My body and mind essentially stopped functioning. I went from managing a full-time job to being unable to sustain basic daily function, eventually needing extended medical leave. Physical symptoms piled on — joint pain, vestibular issues, extreme fatigue — and no one around me, including some earlier providers, could explain why one loss had derailed everything so completely, or why recovery wasn’t linear.
It wasn’t until I started working with her that I understood the fuller picture: long-standing, unrecognised ADHD traits had been quietly increasing my baseline load for years — masking effort, sensory overwhelm, executive dysfunction — and grief plus trauma re-activation was the tipping point that exposed it. The overwhelm wasn’t “just grief” or “just anxiety” — it was years of unacknowledged ADHD-driven strain finally hitting a breaking point, compounding the trauma response and making recovery far harder than it should have been. Having that explained clearly, with evidence behind it, changed how I understood my entire collapse — not as a personal failure to cope, but as a specific, nameable pattern that finally made sense.

What was different with her:
• She didn’t rely on a single intake form. She used a structured, validated ADHD interview (DIVA-5) rather than a quick checklist — going through childhood and adult symptoms systematically, across multiple life domains, before reaching any conclusion.
• She actively looked for what didn’t fit as hard as what did — flagging anxiety, OCD-spectrum traits, and trauma as overlapping contributors rather than lumping everything under one label. She was explicit about what was confirmed, what was preliminary, and what needed more time before being called a diagnosis.
• She explained the why behind everything — why a medication had failed before, why a new one was being tried at a low starting dose, why certain symptoms were anxiety-driven versus ADHD-driven versus pain-driven. For the first time, my symptoms made sense as a connected picture instead of a list of unrelated complaints.
• Medication changes were conservative and closely reasoned — low starting doses, slow titration, clear rationale tied to my history of failed trials, and honest acknowledgment of what’s still being adjusted rather than overpromising.
• She gave real time in session — often going well beyond the standard slot — specifically to build safety before going into harder material. That mattered enormously with a trauma history.
• Beyond medication, she thought about the whole picture: physiotherapy suited to hypermobility, sleep architecture, structured routines for executive dysfunction, and even flagged relational/couples work given how my symptoms affect my marriage.
• She has skills of a psychoanalyst, which showed in how she picked up behavioural and relational patterns I hadn’t been able to name myself, and helped me actually work through them rather than just manage symptoms.
Result: Noticeable improvement within a short window — not because of one magic medication, but because the whole formulation finally made sense and the plan was built around me, not a template.
Her details, for anyone in India searching for someone similar:
• Dr. Vaidehee Lakhani Chaudhary, MBBS, MD Psychiatry (Reg. No. MD 39950)
• Practice: Nirvana MindCare
• Location: Doc Thakur Clinic, 5th Floor, Bodycare Complex, Vadaj, Ahmedabad
• Offers online consultations pan-India (Zoom)
• Website: nirvanamindcare.com
• Contact: connect@nirvanamindcare.com / +91 7096106460

my name is aaaa and i am 21 years old man

i were suffering from the mental illlness(multi personality disorder)

i have three personlity within myself

but i can handle them manually

now i am going to introduce them

1.ben

2.max

3.normally me

for each of them have each tasks example ben is used for my acedemic and max is used for my happiness and last me who is used to take decisions

how its all began

i was normal child until 3th standard

i was studing at private school

i were dull student and my marks were low and even i couldn't read long words in tamil and english

i passed my quarterly and half yearly exam at boarder pass mark.

but everything changed when my maths mam started to encourage me by comptete with students who were toppers at our class (our standard has four classes from A TO D,students are filled in the classes according to their previous acedemic mark 2nd standard annual exam mark ascending order

so our class is last class for dull students )

with my ego and competative behaviour i scored high marks in maths and first mark in my class d but i scored low marks in tamil,english,science,social

but the taste of being first and taking high marks satisfy my ego so i started to work hard to be first rank

at my 4th,5th,6th,7th,8th standard

i were so competative and egoistic to score marks at these standard

i scored mark by 85 to 90 percentage of hard work and 15 to 10 percentage of cheating in exam

but at my 9th standard,i faced rejection and betrayal of friends for scoring marks by cheating

so i started to stop my cheating activities in the exam completely at end of 9th standard

WHERE MY PERSONALITY DISORDER TOOK ME:

during my 10th,11th and 12th i were sub consciously using my personalities without recognising which leads me to be alone and ignored by other

supernatural vision which were seen by me while i were unconscious

i could see two persons infront of me including them and me the total was 3

we all talked together every time even while sleeping and in my dreams

i felt something which can't be described in the words which give me a path to connect them visually

now i would my powers of my personality

1.ben who was very intelligent version of me and he could read and learn anything within short period example if i want to learn new things ,i would swap my position with him so i could read everything fast and without wasting the time

calculate everything,predict future accurately without flaws,withstand enormous pain ,

but he will come only at critical situation

last time i experienced him at my 12th board exam and state level sports competation

2.max-created for my happiness

because of him i can't cry anymore

i smile at critical and emotional situation because of him ,my family hated me

i can't express other emotions except smile

my classmates and teachers made fun of me infront of stage and auditorium

3. normally me

i am the one who controls these two persons

i acted as switch who come to take my body as per the need i faced

example: if i felt bored,sad,happy,tension,alone,etc.. ,i switch to max and started to be happy without a reason and do anything which makes me happy and fun

if i faced acedemic struggle like exam ,i would switch to ben who took care of me and read everything in a short period example in my 12th standard board exam

i wasted my study leave days unconsciously switch with max who wasted my time by watching,playing games and movies

after the mess ,we have 17 hours only to board exams .so i switch to ben who took care of me and give knowlegde to face the exam with his help my cleared my 12th board by 96 percentage

this things happened to me for every exams

after my 12th standard board exam , i started to realise that intense presence of them increasing every day and today they told me to share this to everybody i really don't the reason why they said me to share this information with you

my goal in my life to be Ben forever and invent new things and machines

my aim is to be a scitentist like sir Abdul kalam

now i am studing final year in b.e. at top tier college

my friends and my family don't know about this

Hello everyone! I'm from Northeast India and completed my BBA in 2025. My bachelor's was not in Psychology, but I'm now seriously interested in pursuing Clinical Psychology as a career.

I'm a little confused about the eligibility and would really appreciate advice from Psychology students/professionals.

I have a few questions:

• With a BBA degree, can I apply for an MA/MSc Psychology?
• If I complete an MA/MSc Psychology, will I then be eligible to pursue Clinical Psychology?
• What qualification do I need after my MA Psychology to become a professional Clinical Psychologist?
• Is an MA Psychology → MA Clinical Psychology the correct pathway?
• Is M.Phil Clinical Psychology still an option, or has it been replaced by the new M.A. Clinical Psychology?
• If someone has a BA/BSc Psychology, do they have a shorter/directer route into Clinical Psychology compared with someone from a BBA background?
• Since I'm starting from BBA, what would be the best and most straightforward route for me to eventually become a Clinical Psychologist?

I'm seeing different information everywhere, so I'd really appreciate it if someone who has actually gone through this pathway could explain it simply.

One more thing I'm confused about: I'm also considering doing my Psychology master's abroad, possibly a 1-year master's. Would a 1-year foreign master's in Psychology be valid/acceptable for continuing into Clinical Psychology in India? Or would it be better to complete my MA Psychology in India first and then pursue Clinical Psychology abroad? I'd especially appreciate advice from anyone who has dealt with this situation.

Thank you! ❤️

I really want to pursue psychology, but am always overwhelmed that there are no job opportunities 😭

The sector is growing now, but what about in 5-8 years? Will I get jobs then? Won't AI take our jobs?

Someone please give me a realistic idea

I think I have stumbled upon something that hasn't necessarily been written about before, which is why I'm calling it, for now, the Van Paradox. I think it's important to note that this is a hypothesis, and far from an established psychological phenomenon.

The premise is simple:

We might perceive someone as more accessible than they are, based on some point in the past where they indeed were accessible.

My working metaphor is a forest. The general audience is the soil, from which grow trees that are public figures of some sort. Since the trees grew from the same soil, they are similar in some ways. When they are small treelets, their branches are within reach. You can interact with them, see them often, feel that you know them, in a way. Call them "one of us."

But the tree grows, and becomes a towering tree. Their branches become further and further away. The tree becomes more inaccessible, as it should, due to becoming more prominent, more connected, more elevated in terms of social capital or status.

However, the soil remembers the tree as it was. So, the image of a tree that used to be close, but isn't anymore, may linger in the minds of the people who inhabit the forest.

Meaning that someone who was relatively accessible five years ago may be perceived as equally accessible despite obvious signs that they aren't.

Do you think that the same can be said for people?

I think that, potentially, two people can be perceived as occupying different spots on the accessibility spectrum, due to the interaction between them. For example, if a relatively accessible person manages to interview or interact with another person, who is perceived by others as very inaccessible, the audience may remember the interaction and subsequently perceive the inaccessible person as being slightly more accessible than they were before, just because they saw a familiar face manage to reach them. Sort of like if you're in a forest, and you see two trees that are far from each other, but their branches manage to meet, thus bridging the gap between them. Not necessarily in a conscious way.

I think there are three manifestations of this phenomenon:

1. The temporal lag , where the perception of someone's accessibility is delayed in comparison to their actual status.

2. The relational lag , where one's perceived accessibility is increased due to their relationship to another person.

3. The comparative lag , where two people are perceived as being on differing levels of accessibility due to their relative closeness to the public.

I'm using Karan Aujla, Samay Raina, Raj Shamani and Vijay Mallya as examples right now, but am doing so very selectively. I think it's important to make that distinction.

I'm asking you, if this is something that has been written about previously, or if I have merely discovered a new way of talking about parasocial relationships/interaction, social distance, perceived accessibility, scarcity, or other similar concepts.

Would love to see your views on this concept.

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I have been into therapy since last six months, my therapist starts every session by asking me how i am doing i also want to ask her how is she doing but cant muster up the courage to do so , i am confused if it would be considered boundary violation or not. Now my mind is going like what if she is also on this subreddit , that would be so awkward.