I specialize in diagnosing and managing developmental, emotional, and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents. I believe in team effort to embrace these challenges. My goal is to empower parents/guardians, family, friends, teachers, peers, community and society to collaboratively nurture, protect and guide children, ensuring they grow into confident, resilient and thriving individuals. As it is rightly said that ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ 🙂
Dr Sathiya Ganesan’s
Child and adolescent psychiatry services offered
Developmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), Intellectual Disability, Learning Disorder, Speech and Language Disorders
Behavioural disorders seen in ADHD, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Adjustment Disorders
Emotional disorders such as anxiety, mood disorders (depression, bipolar affective disorders)
Anxiety disorders such as Generalised Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD), Post-traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)
Self injurious behaviour (often referred to cuts in the body and others)
Behavioural addictions such as internet and gaming
Addictions in school going and adolescents (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis etc)
Psychotic disorders such as Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective and delusional disorders
Sleep disorders, nocturnal enuresis, encopresis, eating disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorders)
Building resilience in adolescents with difficult temperament (its like what we call personality in adults)
Psychiatric disorders associated with medical conditions
In my own words
I spent most of my childhood wondering about life sitting on my mango tree. The only calm I ever felt was when the highest branch swayed me softly.
I refused to go to school until 7th grade. I spent my time waiting at the schoolgate, if I ended up at school by chance. Mostly I asked why or cried a lot.
My parents are the best lines in my story. They held onto hope through every challenge. Intentionally i was put in a Christian missionary school at 8th grade. It was not until this day I met my first challenge- Discipline. Not to mention my least favorite- Overcorrection.
I tried and mimicked everyone around me to fit into the system. I never could. But everything seemed effortless eventually. I surpassed grades one by one with hardwork and determination. Tuitions became my second home and becoming a doctor became my first goal.
I chose specifically to become a psychiatrist during my M.B.B.S internship. Psychiatry became my passion.
I stood at the cross roads of doing child psychiatry or nothing at all. Gradually I realised i could connect with children more better. Child psychiatry became my second child. Also, I solve my existential crisis time to time, when I decide to do nothing. Nothing became my spirituality motto.
‘The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before i sleep’- Robert Frost.
If I could do it, so can you 🙂