Dr Divya Rajawat
MBBS, MD (Psychiatry) · Registration No. 205155, Karnataka Medical Council
Dr Divya Rajawat is a consultant psychiatrist practising in Bangalore.
She studied medicine at R.N.T. Medical College, Udaipur, and trained in psychiatry at S.M.S. Medical College, Jaipur, completing her MD after three years as a junior resident in the department. S.M.S. is a government teaching hospital, where the psychiatry outpatient clinic sees three hundred or more people on an ordinary day. That setting shapes a clinician. She managed mood and psychotic illness on the wards, handled emergency presentations including suicide risk assessment, treated substance use disorders, and took the referrals that arrive from other departments when a physical illness and a psychiatric one are tangled together — six years in clinical medicine and psychiatry.
Most people who reach her have been managing something for a long time before they book. They have usually read a great deal, been told conflicting things by different people, and are still not certain whether what they are living with is a medical problem at all. That uncertainty is reasonable, and it is where she begins. She assesses, diagnoses, prescribes and monitors treatment. Where a person needs therapy rather than medical treatment, she can refer to well-trained therapists in her network.
A first consultation is not a questionnaire. Dr Rajawat takes a full history: when the difficulty began, what was happening around the person at the time, what runs in the family, and — the question that often goes unasked — what it is costing them now. Whether they can still work or study. Whether it has changed how they are with the people closest to them. Two people can describe the same symptom and need entirely different treatment, and the difference usually lies there.
From that she reaches a diagnosis and explains it plainly, including how confident she is in it and what would change her view. Treatment follows the diagnosis, not the other way round. Sometimes that means medication, sometimes therapy, often both, and sometimes neither — waiting, watching, and talking again in a few weeks is a legitimate plan, and she will recommend it rather than prescribe for the sake of prescribing.
Where medication is appropriate, she explains what it is for, how long it takes to work, which side effects are likely rather than merely listed, and how it would be stopped. Beginning a psychiatric medicine does not commit anyone to taking it for life. That belief keeps more people away from treatment than almost any other, and it is not true.
Dr Rajawat sees adults, children and adolescents from the age of four, and older adults. She consults in English and Hindi.
This is not an emergency service. If you or someone with you is in immediate danger, call Tele-MANAS on 14416 or the emergency number 112.
Areas of practice
- Child and adolescent psychiatry, from age 4
- Adult ADHD — assessment and medication
- Geriatric psychiatry — memory change, late-life depression, medication review
- De-addiction — alcohol, tobacco and cannabis
- Bipolar and mood disorders
- OCD and anxiety disorders
- Personality disorders
- Consultation–liaison psychiatry, alongside physical illness
- Psychiatric second opinions and medication review
How she works
A first appointment is longer than most. That is the point: a psychiatric evaluation means taking a full history, performing a mental status examination, ruling out physical causes that imitate psychiatric illness, and arriving at a diagnosis that can be explained and justified. It cannot be done in twelve minutes.
Every consultation ends with a written plan, sent within the hour. Where medication is started, you are told what it does, what the first fortnight tends to feel like, and what to do if it does not suit you.
Languages
Consultations are available in English and Hindi.
Where she practises
Video consultations across India. In-person consultations in Bangalore once clinic facilities open.