Dr Shaurya Garg

Dr Shaurya Garg Consultant Psychiatrist, MD(AIIMS Delhi)🥇 making mental health simple, relatable & evidence-based for 100k+ people

16/08/2026

What if the first thing being sold to you isn’t the product, but the fear that makes you want it?

Next time an ad creates urgency, ask: Would I still want this if I wasn’t made anxious first?

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15th August, 2026: Independence Day insight 🇮🇳Independence is not only about freedom from external control. Sometimes, e...
15/08/2026

15th August, 2026: Independence Day insight 🇮🇳

Independence is not only about freedom from external control. Sometimes, emotionally, it is the freedom to disagree, set limits, and have your own needs without feeling responsible for everyone else’s comfort.

If “peace” always requires one person to stay quiet and adjust, that is not really peace.

Sometimes emotional independence begins with reclaiming your own voice.

15/08/2026

A psychiatric presentation is not always a primary psychiatric illness.

In young women, acute behavioural change followed by mutism, abnormal movements, seizures or autonomic instability should raise suspicion for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. An associated ovarian teratoma may be the underlying trigger.

Ovarian teratoma is a tumour, often benign, and called cancer here conversationally.

The real lesson is simple: don’t order tests blindly. Know what you’re looking for and why.

14/08/2026

The science behind this chaos 🧠

ADHD can look strangely contradictory: struggling to start a 2-minute task, but somehow finishing 3 hours of work once it becomes urgent.

That isn’t simply laziness. ADHD is associated with differences in executive function, working memory and reward processing, which is why novelty, interest or immediate consequences can sometimes make action much easier.

And remembering a random fact from 10 years ago while forgetting why you entered the kitchen? Long-term memory and working memory are different things, and working-memory difficulties are common in ADHD.

Relatable ≠ diagnostic. But for a lot of people with ADHD, the contradiction is very real

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13/08/2026

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12/08/2026

As a doctor it is very important to know local lingo

11/08/2026

Headaches don’t always follow a textbook

These are possible/common headache patterns, not fixed diagnostic rules. The same headache disorder can present differently across people, and location alone rarely gives you the diagnosis.

Migraine often presents with throbbing or pulsatile pain, nausea, light/sound sensitivity and worsening with activity. Tension-type headache is more often pressing or band-like and less affected by routine movement. Significant blood-pressure elevation can also be associated with headache, but an occipital location by itself does not diagnose hypertension.

And if headaches repeatedly appear during periods of anxiety, depression or psychological stress, that association matters too. It does not mean the pain is imaginary. So don’t ask only “Where does it hurt?”
Also ask:

What does it feel like?
How long does it last?
What comes with it?
What makes it worse?
And what was happening around the time it started?

Headache is a clinical story, not just a scan report.

10/08/2026

Sometimes, abstinence is not the same as recovery.

A substance often becomes attached to a break, a friendship, a celebration, boredom, stress, or simply a routine.

So recovery is not only about saying no to the substance. It is also about rebuilding the situations in which saying yes became automatic.

Don’t just remove the substance. Rebuild the life around it.

09/08/2026

Watching reels at 2x does not mean you have ADHD.

But the preference for more stimulation, greater boredom proneness and difficulty tolerating slow or repetitive input can be relevant in ADHD.

Sometimes, making something faster makes it easier to stay with.

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