Compassionate Psychiatric Care at Ocean View
Mental health reflects your well-being. It reflects your psychological, social, and emotional state of being. Mental health aids in helping you cope with stressors, learn, work, realize your abilities, and contribute to your community.
Being diagnosed with a mental health condition, like depression or anxiety, doesn’t rule out being healthy and happy. Access to safe, effective, comprehensive mental health care, like acute psychiatric care, can help you manage your symptoms. Psychotherapy can also help nurture relationships and environments and create a stable life. However, even when you’re successfully managing your mental health, you may need extra help stabilizing. Seeking help at Ocean View Psychiatric Hospital gives you the safe, expert crisis intervention care you need to stabilize, learn, and heal.
Mood Disorders: Finding Support for Mood Instability & More
Moods can affect your mind and body. There is a connection between good mental health and physical health. Good mental health also affects your mind. Your mood can affect your physical health. It can also determine how your mind reacts to people or things.
Your mood can define how you’re feeling at any moment. StatPearls defines mood as a “pervasive and sustained feeling tone that is endured internally and which impacts nearly all of a person’s behavior in the external world.” Moods are why you feel happy, sad, angry, or hurt during specific situations. You feel so glad when you see something or someone that brings you joy. You may also cry when you see a sad part of a movie. Most people can regulate their moods, such as happiness or sadness. Some people may not be able to stop themselves from experiencing severe feelings that are uncontrollable. These severe feelings may be a symptom of a mood disorder.
The article mentioned above describes mood disorders as “[m]arked disruptions in emotions (severe lows called depression or highs called hypomania or mania).” Through psychotherapy like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), you can learn how to cope with depression or bipolar disorder. In some cases, your therapist may recommend that you see a psychiatrist because you need medication to help regulate the chemical levels in your brain. What happens, though, when therapy and medication aren’t enough and you experience a mental health crisis? You can seek help at Ocean View. Our medical and therapy teams, trained in crisis stabilization, will work with you to stabilize your mental health.
Anxiety Disorders: Therapy and Treatment for Anxiety, Panic & Stress
There are times when you may feel afraid or want to get away from people or things that bring stress, pain, or anxiety. It’s not unusual to want to avoid these situations. However, while some may be able to cope with these feelings, you may experience these emotions more severely than others. When fear or anxiety changes your behavior or interferes with your personal, social, or work life to the point where you can’t engage in them or have a prolonged, excessive feeling of dread all the time, you should see a professional. A therapist will be able to identify and diagnose an anxiety disorder. There are several types of anxiety disorders, including:
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): Feeling worry, fear, or dread occasionally is normal. You may worry about your health, family, or work. But when fear, dread, or worry are a persistent part of your life and interfere with your life, you should seek help. Connecting with a therapist will give you the support to learn about and find ways to cope with those feelings. Therapy can guide you to understand why you have GAD.
Panic disorder: Panic disorder is when you have an overwhelming sense of fear or anxiety attacks for no apparent reason. The feelings of discomfort, fear, or loss of control can inhibit how you live your life and affect your health. A panic attack may feel like you’re having a heart attack. You may feel tingling, an increased heart rate, chills, and tremors. Other symptoms include:
- Fear or avoidance of specific places,
- Worry about the next panic attack,
- Feeling out of control, doom, or fearing death
Panic disorders can be treated with therapy like CBT, medication, or a combination.
Social anxiety disorder: Social anxiety disorder can begin when you’re a child and can be confused with a behavior like shyness. However, people with social anxiety disorder feel fear or anxiety in social situations. Social anxiety disorder is when you think you’re being judged, evaluated, or scrutinized in situations like meeting new people, dating, public speaking, talking to people, or answering questions at work or other situations. A few symptoms of social anxiety disorder are:
- Sweating
- Rapid heart rate
- Your mind going blank
- Feeling ill or like you want to throw up
- Avoiding places where people are
Talk with your health care provider if you experience the symptoms listed above. They can check for possible physical issues and, if they’re ruled out, refer you to a therapist.
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Thought Disorders: Compassionate Care for Schizophrenia & Related Conditions
Thought disorders like schizophrenia are often misunderstood. In the past, a thought disorder known as “formal thought disorder” has historically been treated as a key feature of severe mental illness and closely linked with the paradigmatic form of “madness”: schizophrenia. Recently, “thought disorder” has been viewed in terms of behavior. Its symptoms include a disruption in cognition affecting thought, communication, and language. A thought disorder is challenging to diagnose and treat because it’s not uncommon for people to exhibit these symptoms from time to time. You may experience it when you’re tired. However, these symptoms are connected with schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is often mistakenly linked with people diagnosed with “split personalities.” A split personality is a dissociative identity disorder. Schizophrenia is a continuous mental health disorder marked by delusions or hallucinations. Schizophrenia is identified with “positive” and “negative” symptoms. Some symptoms of schizophrenia are:
- Isolating from friends and family
- Change in concentration
- Agitation and irritability
- Ambiguous suspiciousness
- Anxiety
- Unusual ideas
At Ocean View, we treat patients with schizophrenia with the crisis intervention and health care they need. A part of our crisis intervention program includes psychoeducation groups. The group you will participate in will consist of others with your diagnosis. You’ll learn basic life skills, gain a better understanding of the feelings you’re experiencing, and explore tools you can use to manage symptoms, improve communication, and build confidence in daily life. Our goal is to help you feel supported, empowered, and equipped to take meaningful steps toward stability and wellness.
A Personalized Approach to Healing: Tailored Therapy for Your Needs
Personalized mental health care gives you, our patient, the chance to receive crisis intervention care in a comfortable, supportive environment. Our team consists of forward-thinking experts who have your health as our top priority. Because we are family-owned, we know how important it is to feel like you have family and peer support. That’s why we plan your treatment with you.
Another part of our tailored approach to healing is helping you identify adverse behavior. We address behaviors that can act as triggers or affect you by including healthy coping skills in your therapy sessions. As you develop your treatment plan, your therapist may consult with your doctor to ensure your medication is safe and effective.
Your Unique Needs, Our Personalized Approach to Mental Health Care
Ocean View provides a safe, comfortable environment for healing. You will receive comprehensive care in a safe and calm environment. We offer private or shared bedrooms. Our private bedrooms give you the privacy you seek while learning and healing. In addition to our quiet, peaceful bedrooms, we have catered meals. You deserve personalized attention and care.
A Supportive and Healing Environment: Experience the Ocean View Difference for Mental Wellness
Comprehensive care is key to mental wellness. As a patient at Ocean View, you will receive the most effective interventions from a multidisciplinary team of doctors, skilled medical staff, and therapists. Your team will guide you through healing yourself and restoring inner peace, while also helping you build essential life skills to support long-term recovery, emotional resilience, and overall well-being.
Experience the Ocean View Difference: A Community of Support for Your Recovery Journey
When you choose Ocean View for crisis intervention, you select a community that will support you through your recovery journey. As a patient, you will attend three psychoeducation groups throughout the day, work with a recreation therapist, participate in family therapy, and receive pet therapy. Our commitment to providing comprehensive, safe, and peaceful care to patients is essential. Why? Because we are family-owned and take pride in our treatments.
Inpatient Care for Suicidal Ideation, Behavioral Health & More
Inpatient care is medical treatment for patients requiring hospitalization and monitoring for severe health conditions. A patient admitted to inpatient care needs more medical and therapeutic support than patients admitted to outpatient treatment. For example, if you have suicidal thoughts, you will be admitted to a hospital or a crisis intervention program for suicide prevention.
Suicide is an act to harm yourself, intending to end your life, and results in death. People may attempt to commit suicide, but their actions don’t lead to death. Anyone can be at risk of suicide because the behavior is complicated. For this reason, suicide prevention is vital. Suicide is preventable with various suicide prevention strategies. Ocean View can aid you in learning suicide prevention skills. We work with you to find peer support groups, find healthy ways to manage harmful feelings, and focus on socio-emotional skills.
Finding Stability and Hope During a Mental Health Crisis
During a mental health crisis, you may feel out of control and helpless. Seeking help or crisis intervention is key to your well-being. When you choose Ocean View, you choose people who want to see you succeed. We support you in finding stability, healthy coping skills, and hope. Stability and hope can help you regain your self-esteem. They can also redirect you toward positive changes in your behavior, building strong relationships, and achieving goals. You can accomplish this with personalized individual therapy.
Continuing the Journey: Outpatient and PHP Options for Long-Term Mental Wellness
Inpatient therapy builds the foundation you require to begin your mental wellness journey. You may not be ready to return to your environment once you complete inpatient treatment. If you feel unsure about returning home, you can enter an intensive outpatient or partial hospitalization program.
Partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) are more comprehensive than an intensive outpatient program. PHPs are a step down from inpatient treatment. They are best suited for those with acute or severe mental health needs, such as those with active schizophrenia or suicidal thoughts. If you are in PHP, you can stay at home and attend therapy, skills sessions, and other activities.
An intensive outpatient program (IOP) is a level of care that involves continuing therapy without staying in the hospital. You will develop a care plan that sets a timeline for your IOP. For example, our IOP program runs Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. While in IOP, you will also be encouraged to find peer support groups.
Taking the First Step: Contact Ocean View for Information & Support
If you feel you need help to stabilize your mental health disorder, we’re here for you. You can contact us at any time or on any day. Our goal is to help you find inner peace by guiding you through the journey of stabilizing your mental health disorder.
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Compassionate, comprehensive care is vital to your mental health. At Ocean View, we provide expert, forward-thinking care that meets your needs. Our crisis stabilization care encompasses mood, behavior, and thought disorders. Our doctors, medical staff, and therapists understand that your needs differ. We offer personalized treatment that reflects your personality, mental health disorder, and cognitive state. You will attend group therapy with others who have the same mental health or cognitive disorders. We believe your well-being is our priority. That’s why we have private bedrooms where you can retreat to heal yourself quietly. Ocean View’s care team strives to give you the skills to cope with adverse influences that threaten your inner peace. To learn more about our programs, call (844) 562-1212.