A study on professional stress, depression and alcohol use among Indian IT professionals.

Background: Stress has touched almost all professions posing threat to mental and physical health. India being the Information Technology (IT) hub with lakhs involved as IT Professionals, there is a need to assess prevalence of professional stress, depression and problem alcohol use and understand their association.

Objectives: (1) To screen for the prevalence of professional stress, risk for depression and harmful alcohol use among software engineers.

Obsessive compulsive disorder with bipolar mood disorder: a rare comorbidity in India.

Obsessive compulsive features occurring in mania have been well documented. Though there have been some studies on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) comorbid with mania in the western countries, there are very few case reports and studies in India. Our aim is to report one such case here, who presented with OC features which are not typical of the symptom cluster of the OCD commonly seen with mania in earlier reports.

Identifying the 'mentally disabled' in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training?

Background: Studies have been conducted on the skills of physicians in general hospitals in identifying mental disorders,but there are no studies assessing the proficiency of internees in identifying mental disorders.

Aim: To confirm the diagnosis of the cases identified by 40 internees in the community as 'mentally disabled'.

Materials And Methods: Of 15,583 people,29 were identified in the community by the internees as 'mentally disabled'.