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Self-Harming Psychiatrists
Self-harm (SH) or deliberate self-harm (DSH) is the deliberate infliction of damage to your own body. It includes cutting, burning, scratching, banging or hitting yourself, interfering with wound healing, and the ingestion of toxic substances or objects. While self injury (SI) can look like suicide, it's not; most people who mutilate themselves do it as a way to regulate mood. People who hurt themselves in this way may be motivated by a need to distract themselves from inner turmoil, or to quickly release anxiety that builds due to an inability to express intense emotions.
If you're looking for help with self-harming in Costa Mesa or for someone who self harms, or cuts themselves, or bangs or hits themselves, these Costa Mesa psychiatrists provide counseling for self harming in Costa Mesa. They include psychiatrists, who understand self harming in Costa Mesa, psychologists and counselors. They can provide self harming counseling in Costa Mesa or treatment for self harming.
Self-harm (SH) or deliberate self-harm (DSH) is the deliberate infliction of damage to your own body. It includes cutting, burning, scratching, banging or hitting yourself, interfering with wound healing, and the ingestion of toxic substances or objects. While self injury (SI) can look like suicide, it's not; most people who mutilate themselves do it as a way to regulate mood. People who hurt themselves in this way may be motivated by a need to distract themselves from inner turmoil, or to quickly release anxiety that builds due to an inability to express intense emotions.
If you're looking for help with self-harming in Costa Mesa or for someone who self harms, or cuts themselves, or bangs or hits themselves, these Costa Mesa psychiatrists provide counseling for self harming in Costa Mesa. They include psychiatrists, who understand self harming in Costa Mesa, psychologists and counselors. They can provide self harming counseling in Costa Mesa or treatment for self harming.
About Psychiatrists, meds and Psychiatric Nurses.
A Psychiatrist in Costa Mesa is a qualified medical doctor who specializes in treating mental health issues and diagnosable disorders.
Costa Mesa Psychiatrists differ from other mental health professionals in that they may prescribe medication as well as practice psychotherapy in treatment. Sometimes, Psychiatrists form part of a clinical team in which they will diagnose and prescribe, while psychologists or therapists provide the client's psychotherapy.
As part of a clinical assessment, Psychiatrists may conduct physical examinations, take blood tests, and order and interpret lab tests and brain image scans, such as CT scans, CAT Scans and MRIs.
The field of psychiatry in Costa Mesa has many sub specialties including pediatric psychiatry (so check for Costa Mesa child psychiatrists or adolescent psychiatrists in Costa Mesa). Those who work with the elderly are called geriatric psychiatrists.
Other related sub specialties include cognition psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, psychosomatic, forensic, reproductive medicine specialties, psychopharmacology (certain states license Psychopharmacologists), psychiatric genetics, neuroimaging, and clinical neurophysiology.
Psychiatric nurse practitioners in Costa Mesa, or mental health nurse practitioners, generally have a MS degree in nursing (MSN) and a number of years training to become certified. Psychiatric nurse practitioners are able to assess and diagnose mental health conditions and prescribe medication. Costa Mesa Psychiatric nurse practitioners also have training that enables them to include psychotherapy with treatment.
A Psychiatrist in Costa Mesa is a qualified medical doctor who specializes in treating mental health issues and diagnosable disorders.
Costa Mesa Psychiatrists differ from other mental health professionals in that they may prescribe medication as well as practice psychotherapy in treatment. Sometimes, Psychiatrists form part of a clinical team in which they will diagnose and prescribe, while psychologists or therapists provide the client's psychotherapy.
As part of a clinical assessment, Psychiatrists may conduct physical examinations, take blood tests, and order and interpret lab tests and brain image scans, such as CT scans, CAT Scans and MRIs.
The field of psychiatry in Costa Mesa has many sub specialties including pediatric psychiatry (so check for Costa Mesa child psychiatrists or adolescent psychiatrists in Costa Mesa). Those who work with the elderly are called geriatric psychiatrists.
Other related sub specialties include cognition psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, psychosomatic, forensic, reproductive medicine specialties, psychopharmacology (certain states license Psychopharmacologists), psychiatric genetics, neuroimaging, and clinical neurophysiology.
Psychiatric nurse practitioners in Costa Mesa, or mental health nurse practitioners, generally have a MS degree in nursing (MSN) and a number of years training to become certified. Psychiatric nurse practitioners are able to assess and diagnose mental health conditions and prescribe medication. Costa Mesa Psychiatric nurse practitioners also have training that enables them to include psychotherapy with treatment.