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Specialises in

• Rehabilitation

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Dr Ram is a General Adult Psychiatrist specialising in treating patients with the following conditions:

Assessment and Management of Adult ADHD

Stress disorders - Acute Stress Reaction, Adjustment Disorder with Depressive symptoms, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Anxiety disorders - Panic attacks, Social Phobia, Generalised Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia

Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (Severe symptoms of PMS)

OCD: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Depressive illness - Recurrent depression, stress related depression, neurotic depression, endogenous depression, mixed anxiety and depression, Dysthymia (persistent low mood)

Bipolar Affective disorder (manic depressive illness) - Mania, Hypomania, Depression,
Sub-syndromal Depression, Mixed Affective Disorder

Other mood disorders including mood swings/fluctuations for no apparent reason - Cyclothymia (Cycling of mood up and down), Bipolar Affective Disorder Type 2, Hyperthymia (Mood in a hyper state most of the time)

Psychosis and other related disorders: Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder, Drug induced Psychosis, stress induced Psychosis, and Psychotic depression

Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder

Personality disorders - Emotionally Unstable Personality (borderline personality) disorder

Sleep and anger problems

Alcohol related illness: Community Alcohol Detoxification where appropriate, Alcohol induced Hallucinosis, diagnosis of Korasakoff's Psychosis

Areas of interest

Dr Ram has a special interest in the Diagnosis and Management of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and other anxiety disorders including Social Anxiety Disorder/Social Phobia, PTSD, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, Agaraphobia

Management of different types of Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depressive Illness)

Psychosis and related illness

Medical secretaries

• Carly Betts
• Oaks Hospital Oaks Place Mile End Road Colchester CO4 5XR
• 07877 195139
• carly.betts@nhs.net