4% may not seem like many, but think of it this way: that’s 1 in 25 people who might’ve felt too depressed to get out of bed yesterday, or who were too afraid to leave their house last week. It’s not just one debilitating experience, either. For these individuals, mental health conditions are an immense obstacle every single day.
If you’re reading this page, you may be one of them. We know it may feel like you’re entirely alone. “You’re not alone,” may sound like an empty phrase, even for as true as it is. You aren’t here for words of inspiration that don’t speak to the pain you feel. You’re here because you’re tired of every day feeling like a battle against your mind. You’re exhausted, and you just want to feel better.
You’re in the right place. Our team at BNI Clinics are experts in adult psychiatry, and we can help.
What We Treat: Behavioral Health Conditions in Adults
From family to finances and everything in between – adulthood comes with a multitude of challenges.
Your mind should be an ally in these stressful situations, but too often, managing mental health can prove a challenge in itself.
Maybe you’ve lost motivation and interest in most things in your life. Maybe your inability to focus at work is putting your job in jeopardy, or your anxiety is keeping you from enjoying time with the people you love. There are countless possibilities, and no matter what your mental health concern is – BNI Clinics empowers you to overcome it.
We encourage you to come to us whether you’ve been diagnosed with a mental health condition or you have concerns you’ve never spoken to a physician about. We can both diagnose and treat mental health conditions, no matter how mild or severe they seem.
How We Treat: What to Expect From Adult Psychiatry Treatment With BNI Clinics
At BNI Clinics, we pride ourselves on our thorough, individualized approach to care. We provide detailed testing to determine and define any conditions you’re living with. Then, we work with you to find therapy options that empower you to overcome your behavioral health challenges. If necessary, we can prescribe and manage medication, too. All of these processes work together to promote comprehensive healing and transform lives.
Professional Diagnosis: Providing Answers and Understanding
If you were diagnosed with a mental health condition, think back to that moment. How did you feel? While some people feel disappointed to be diagnosed with a behavioral health condition, often, the opposite is true. Diagnosis can be an answer to countless questions about why you are the way you are. It can be confirmation that you aren’t alone and that there is a path forward to make your life and feelings more manageable. At BNI Clinics, we believe knowledge is power, and the understanding a diagnosis provides is the first step to conquering any behavioral health challenge.
Our psychiatrists are honored to open the door to comprehensive healing through our psychological testing. To diagnose a potential behavioral health condition, we might conduct the following:
- A clinical interview to learn more about how you experience life
- Collateral interviews with people close to you to learn about behavior you might not be aware of
- A review of your medical records
- Several different psychological tests
- A report on your psychological health and recommended treatment options
Through this process, we can address concentration and attention concerns, behavioral, emotional, and social challenges, and potential learning disabilities. We also administer personality tests.
Medication Prescription and Management for Long-Term Wellness
Medication isn’t for everyone, but it can be an important part of treatment for some individuals. If our assessments determine it might be appropriate, our skilled psychiatrists can prescribe and manage medication.
Treating conditions with medication isn’t always straightforward. Often, it involves some degree of trial and error. We’ll walk alongside you and support you every step of the way, and discuss when it’s necessary to change or stop medication. It can be difficult to trust others with your health, especially when it comes to medication, but our team is made up of experts in their field who are well-equipped to guide you in this process.
Combining Medicine and Therapy for Comprehensive Healing
Evidence-based therapy is the core of our care at BNI Clinics. Our therapy options are vast, allowing you to find the modality that works for you without the limitations of many other psychiatric practices. These are just a few of the therapy options we offer:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to restructure negative thoughts into more productive ones
- Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to improve the regulation and management of intense emotions
- Family therapy to fully address environmental and interpersonal problems between the people closest to you
- Psychodynamic therapy to explore unconscious motivations and the influence of past experiences
We also offer ketamine treatment and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), especially for individuals with treatment-resistant depression.
BNI Clinics believes medication is most effective when paired with therapy. We’ll often try therapy first, though every situation depends on the individual and their needs. Sometimes, it’s best to prescribe medication and start therapy simultaneously after diagnosis. In instances of crisis, we might use medication to quickly provide relief to a person for the sake of their safety and stabilization.
We’re well-equipped to help individuals manage a variety of behavioral health conditions, no matter their severity. No psychiatric concern is too small to receive attention, and no behavioral health condition is severe enough to make you a lost cause. We provide care for them all.
A Vital Field: Understanding Adult Psychiatry
Psychiatry includes the diagnosis, treatment, and general study of behavioral health conditions. This includes the common mental health conditions you would think of, such as depression and anxiety disorders, as well as substance use disorders. Some psychiatrists can diagnose autism spectrum disorders as well.
While therapy falls under the branch of psychiatry, not all therapists are psychiatrists. Psychiatrists are medical doctors with the ability to diagnose conditions and prescribe medications. How exactly they operate depends on each physician, because some psychiatrists do not offer diagnoses, and instead just focus on medication management. Meanwhile, some therapists are trained to diagnose mental health conditions, but can’t prescribe medication as part of treatment.
In psychiatry, medication and therapy work together to empower people to heal and manage their mental health effectively.
While 75% of mental health conditions manifest by age 24, some adults will go decades without treatment. It’s never too late to seek mental healthcare, and receiving a diagnosis later in life doesn’t make your condition any less legitimate than a condition diagnosed during adolescence. There’s no shame in receiving a diagnosis later in life, either.
Putting a name to the way you feel can provide a significant amount of relief. Defining your mental health concerns gives you power over them. Psychiatry enables you to regain control of not just your mental health, but your overall well-being and life as a whole.
Signs You Could Benefit From Psychiatric Care
Life comes with challenges, no matter who you are. We believe everyone can benefit from developing strategies to tackle those challenges in healthy ways. Not everyone has a mental health condition, though, which means some people don’t need to see a psychiatrist. How do you know if you might have a mental health condition, or at the very least, symptoms, that a psychiatrist could help with?
If you experience the following, psychiatric care could greatly improve your life:
- Frequent feelings of sadness or poor mood
- Trouble focusing and concentrating
- Intense fear, guilt, or shame
- Distancing yourself from family, friends, and activities you once enjoyed
- Seeing and/or hearing things that aren’t there
- Extreme anger and/or aggression
- Difficulty coping with life’s daily stresses
- Unhealthy substance use
- Suicidal ideation
If you have any mental health concerns that are significantly interfering with your daily life, even if they aren’t on this list, it’s a good idea to seek psychiatric treatment.
Seeking Psychiatric Care in Los Angeles With BNI Clinics
We don’t have to tell you how difficult it is to manage a mental health condition on your own. If you’re here, you already know that personally. Whether you’re experiencing one yourself or are walking alongside a loved one who is, help is available. Often, the first step to getting that help is the hardest one to take. We encourage you to take that leap and contact us for psychiatric care. It will change your life.
BNI Clinics, located in the Los Angeles area, is dedicated to bringing health and happiness to your family. Whether it’s an adult, adolescent, or child in need – there’s no limit to our care. Call us today at 310-691-5005 to learn more about our comprehensive care and how it can transform your life.
BNI Clinics: Science-based, evidence-backed, compassion-led.
