Comments on: On the Wards – (Child) Psychiatry http://www.jeffreymd.com/2008/05/25/on-the-wards-psychiatry/ my journey through medical school Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff W http://www.jeffreymd.com/2008/05/25/on-the-wards-psychiatry/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Jeff W Fri, 30 May 2008 04:55:29 +0000 http://www.jeffreymd.com/?p=164#comment-236 Well a number of patients, their primary concern was that they were a danger to self or others. Quite a few were hospitalized because they had suicidal thoughts. A number were depressed. And I often heard the docs trying to figure out whether or not a certain patient had post-traumatic stress disorder (usually as a result of being abused). I think almost half of the kids on the unit, if you ask them why they are there, would say they are there because of anger problems. They are there to learn how to control their anger because they can get violent when provoked. The term for this was IED, which I found amusing. In the psychiatric sense, IED stands for "intermittent explosive disorder" rather than "improvised explosive device" as we often hear of in the news. Well a number of patients, their primary concern was that they were a danger to self or others. Quite a few were hospitalized because they had suicidal thoughts. A number were depressed. And I often heard the docs trying to figure out whether or not a certain patient had post-traumatic stress disorder (usually as a result of being abused).

I think almost half of the kids on the unit, if you ask them why they are there, would say they are there because of anger problems. They are there to learn how to control their anger because they can get violent when provoked. The term for this was IED, which I found amusing. In the psychiatric sense, IED stands for “intermittent explosive disorder” rather than “improvised explosive device” as we often hear of in the news.

]]> By: Kris http://www.jeffreymd.com/2008/05/25/on-the-wards-psychiatry/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Kris Fri, 30 May 2008 04:46:27 +0000 http://www.jeffreymd.com/?p=164#comment-235 Out of curiosity, what kind of specific psychological diagnoses did some of these children evaluated for? Out of curiosity, what kind of specific psychological diagnoses did some of these children evaluated for?

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