Mental illness, particularly depression, is an increasing health problem for many people from all walks of life. Both conventional and non-conventional therapies for mental illnesses including depression have been and are still being put to practice. An alternative method for treatment of depressed patients, particularly Muslims, is through the combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Islamic values, which is known as Islamic Integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This review discusses the benefits, limitations and future propects of Islamic Integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy particularly in treating Muslims with depression.

Coronaviruses are a family of virus that cause respiratory symptoms. The latest outbreaks of the virus in late December 2019, is named Covid-19. World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency on 31th of January 2020. Cases were detected across the globe. Brief psychotic disorder is a sudden onset (within two weeks) of psychosis which lasting for less than a month. The affected person will eventually return to their premorbid state. It is often in response to a stressful event in one’s life. We reported a case of 31 years old man, who presented with one week’s history of odd behaviour. He was causing a disturbance within his neighbourhood, where he was holding a knife, talking irrelevantly and acting suspiciously. This was his first presentation to hospital. He has no family history of mental illness. He did not take any illicit substances nor alcoholic. In the ward, he was given a low dose of antipsychotics, where he responded rapidly. His brother reported that the patient had been very worked up with the coronavirus outbreak news and had been constantly texting him. He was having fear and distress as he felt that there were not enough preventive measures were being put into place to curb the outbreak of the disease.

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic mood disorder associated with multiple comorbidities. Structural and functional abnormalities in these subjects’ brains have been related to cognitive deficits correlated with the severity of the mood symptoms. These deficits are also present in euthymic states, indicating a trait characteristic. Bipolar subjects would risk developing tardive dyskinesia due to being exposed to long periods of antipsychotic treatment. Unfortunately, the presence of tardive dyskinesia is also associated with worsening cognition. One treatment option for severe tardive dyskinesia is deep brain stimulation that has also been implicated with cognitive decline. We present a case of Bipolar disorder with underlying cognitive impairment, who had a deep brain stimulation device inserted for severe tardive dyskinesia. He was admitted to a depressive phase and was noted to have a sudden worsening of cognitive impairment following his deep brain stimulation device battery running low. Possible explanations discussed for this unexpected observation are attributed to a further deterioration of his tardive dyskinesia following the device failure and depressive episode, which causes added pseudo-cognitive deficit signs.

The clinical presentation symptoms among psychiatric pediatric patients often illustrate the characteristic psychotic features of traumatized children. Cases may go underdiagnosed, misdirected, or commonly treated inappropriately. Clinical studies have conclusively shown an obvious link between childhood trauma and the emergence of symptoms. Transient dissociative episodes are common and normative phenomena during childhood. We reported a case of an 8-year-old boy, who presented with a 5-day history of hallucinatory behavior. He was causing significant nuisances, sudden onset of shouting aggressively, and behavioral changes, associated with neuropsychiatric presentation such as repetitive irregular movement involving his head, neck, and upper limb. There was an asynchrony of symptoms exhibited which were unexplained by clinical semiology or patterns. He was screaming in fear, talking irrelevantly, and acting suspiciously. This was his first presentation to the hospital and no features to suggest organicity. There was no family history of mental illness. No substances, or alcohol and drug usage Serial investigation turned out to be normal and unremarkable. The episodes get frequent whenever parents or hospital staff give more attention toward him. He was given a low dose of antipsychotics, but no obvious rapid changes were observed afterward. Further exploration noted, his parents reported that the patient had been very worked up with past related trauma at school and constantly talking about it. He was afraid, distressed, and anxious as he felt something bad would happen to him. There were significant issues related to attachment figures in this boy, possibly the absent parenting style. He spent most of time playing online games and was preoccupied with them on a daily basis.