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TRSevere Mental Illnesses (Psychotic Disorders)
This section comprises severe psychiatric conditions that alter an individual's perception and interpretation of reality. This can manifest as psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, or profoundly disorganized thought processes. Early detection and consistent, secure clinical management are paramount.
Overview
This section comprises severe psychiatric conditions that alter an individual's perception and interpretation of reality. This can manifest as psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, or profoundly disorganized thought processes. Early detection and consistent, secure clinical management are paramount.
Who is this for?
- I have extensive clinical experience in the treatment and stabilization of complex conditions, including psychoses, schizophrenia, and paranoid disorders.
- I provide continuing outpatient care for patients with psychotic disorders who are already established on a pharmacological regimen, are currently in a stable phase, and require ongoing psychiatric follow-up.
How it works
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Status
We review symptoms, medication, side effects, and functioning.
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Stability
Follow-up focuses on stability, sleep, structure, and early warning signs.
Our approach
Private follow-up can be a supplement when the condition is stable, but does not replace emergency preparedness or ambulatory teams.
When should you seek other care?
Patients presenting with acute psychosis or unmanaged schizophrenic states require immediate, emergency intervention. This necessitates the close involvement of mobile crisis teams (AAT/FACT) or admission to an inpatient psychiatric ward to ensure the safety of both the patient and their surroundings. A private outpatient practice operates strictly on a scheduled appointment basis and does not possess the acute emergency infrastructure required to manage severe breaks from reality.
Frequently asked
Who am I unable to treat?
My private practice is based on planned daytime consultations and lacks the multidisciplinary support system and emergency preparedness found in hospitals. To avoid misdirected referrals and unrealistic expectations, it is important to be transparent about whom I am unable to help in my practice.
Unfortunately, I am unable to accept patients with the following challenges:
- Active, moderate to severe substance use disorders (addiction): These conditions often require multidisciplinary specialised substance abuse treatment (TSB). Note: Patients who have had substance use challenges in the past but are now stable and substance-free and need treatment for underlying mental disorders (e.g. ADHD or affective disorders) are warmly welcome.
- Acute psychoses and unresolved schizophrenic conditions: These conditions require immediate help, close follow-up by ambulatory teams (AAT/FACT) or admission to a closed ward. A private practice does not have the emergency preparedness required for severe loss of reality. However, I can follow up patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorders who are already under medical treatment and are in a stable phase.
- Acute crises, serious suicidal thoughts, or pronounced self-harm impulses: This requires round-the-clock follow-up and a closer safety net around the patient. These patients belong in public acute psychiatry. In case of acute suicidal danger, the emergency clinic or local acute ward must be contacted immediately.
- Severe anorexia or bulimia: Conditions with critical somatic complications and medical instability require close multidisciplinary follow-up by a nutritionist, internist, and often hospitalisation.
- Deeper intellectual disability (F70–F79) with major behavioural disorders: These patients often need coordinated services from the municipality, NAV, housing, and the specialised habilitation service.
- Coercion and forensic psychiatry: All forms of coercion (compulsory mental health care) and follow-up of convicted patients require formal legal frameworks that lie exclusively within the public health system.
Emergency help
The clinic does not offer emergency help, only planned assessment and treatment during daytime hours.
If you need emergency help, please contact:
- Acute ambulatory team (AAT): Contact the ambulatory team at the DPS/outpatient clinic at your local hospital (during daytime).
- Emergency clinic: Call the national emergency clinic number 116 117 (open 24/7).
- Emergency number: In case of acute danger to life, call the ambulance at 113.