Currently classified in the ICD 10 as a habit and impulse disorder, trichotillomania (TTM) is characterized by noticeable hair loss due to a recurrent failure to resist impulses to pull out hair. The hair-pulling is usually preceded by mounting tension and is followed by a sense of relief or gratification.1
TTM has an insidious onset with a chronic course culminating in varied degrees of hair loss. The prevalence rate varies from 0.6% to 3% and is more common in females,2 with an average age of onset around 13 years.

Background: Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizure (PNES) or Pseudoseizures are paroxysmal alterations in behaviour that resemble epileptic seizures but are without any organic cause. Stress is one of the core etiological causes of dissociative disorders, thus, the perception of stress and the coping process employed by them, determine the effects that the stimuli may have on an individual. Objective: To study the level of perceived stress, choice of coping processes employed and their relationship with psychosocial correlates of females with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures. Method: One hundred twenty-one consecutive female patients with PNES were studied using the Perceived Stress Scale and Ways of Coping Questionnaire. Other sociodemographic variables that were thought to potentially influence perceived stress and coping strategies, including Age, Education level, Per capita income and Duration of illness were also recorded. Results: Over 62% had reported high perceived stress, 36.4% had moderate and 1.7% low perceived stress. Participants were found to greatly utilize Social Support Seeking as a coping strategy (mean = 15.12; SD = 4.26) closely followed by the use of Escape-Avoidant coping (mean = 14.36; SD = 3.10) whereas the least utilized coping strategy was found to be Positive reappraisal (mean = 5.50; SD = 4.86). Conclusion: Females with PNES in India are characterized by elevated levels of perceived stress and higher use of Social Support Seeking and escape-Avoidant coping strategies to reduce the impact of a stressor, which may reciprocally act to increase the patients distress, thereby maintaining their dissociative psychopathology. These findings may be utilised for psychological intervention with patients.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a common psychiatric disorder that frequently presents to both mental health experts and general health practitioners. Generally, BDD for the most part, goes unrecognized and undiscovered in clinical settings. It is critical to perceive and precisely analyze BDD in light of the fact that this often secret disorder might be crippling. Patients with BDD have impaired functioning, poor quality of life, a high rate of self-destructive ideation and suicide attempts. In this way, it is essential to screen patients for BDD and abstain from misdiagnosing it as another disease. Non-psychiatric treatments (e.g., medicinal and / or surgical) which most patients look for and get inadequate for BDD. This article presents a clinically engaged outline of BDD symptoms, causes and analyses long term effects of psychotherapy on it.

Introduction: Helicopter parenting (HP) refers to a distinct type of perceived parenting. It is developmentally inappropriate levels of parent involvement and control in their children's lives, which is often observable through their advice, direction, and help with problem. They even make decisions for their children and personally invest in their children's goals. Today's adolescents are expected to make decisions pertaining to their health related behaviour and career related choices. Decision making refers to the capability of developing reliable level of competence to foresee the consequences of alternatives. It is the fourth phase of cognitive development which is normally reached during adolescence, and is synonymous with abstract thinking, logical reasoning and problem-solving skills. Helicopter parenting has been shown to have negative outcomes in emerging adults but so far it has not been investigated in adolescents in India. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, correlational designed study to assess the relationship of Helicopter Parenting with Decision Making styles of Adolescents and their academic performance. Secondary objectives were to ascertain the effect of adolescents' variables on decision making styles and Helicopter parenting scores. A sample size of 425 adolescents was taken. Results: The mean HP scores were higher than the western scores. HP showed a significant correlation with Maladaptive decision making styles, with HP being a good predictor for maladaptive decision making in adolescents, (R 2 =.077, F(1,423)= 35.086, p=.000. There was no significant correlation with ADM-Q Adaptive type but showed a good linear model with self-esteem subscale. There was no statistical significant effect of adolescent's age on HPS. There was a significant negative correlation of HP scores with above average academic performance (0.115, p=0.017) and with total scores (0.106, p=0.029).Academic performance was a good negative predictor for HP (R 2 =0.011, F (1,424)= 4.800, p=0.029). Conclusions: Indian adolescents score high on HP scale. However Indian adolescents prefer not to strongly agree on HPS items and rather remain more non-decisive with mean score of 3.559.We also found that higher HPS score predicts maladaptive decision making style and negatively predicts self-esteem subscale of adaptive decision making styles. Implications: We need to educate the parents about the detrimental effects of helicopter parenting in order to have more self reliant adolescents.