PMHNP 💊 | Psych Educator
Making psych make sense 🧠
DSM-5 breakdowns • Psych evals • PMHNP life #Helping students master mental health
🫶🏽PsychiatryWithKiara
Good morning 🤍
Happy Wisdom Wednesday. Because life has been doing the absolute most and sometimes we need a little education, a little perspective, and a little “respectfully… who gave adulthood permission to be like this?” 😭
See yall around 7 PM ✨
— PsychiatryWithKiara
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is more complex than “someone who hurt your feelings.”
Real personality disorders involve long-standing patterns that impact relationships, functioning, and emotional regulation 🧠
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Psychosis is not the same thing as “crazy.”
Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and impaired reality testing are real clinical symptoms — and people experiencing them still deserve dignity🧠
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#psychiatry
Mood = what the patient reports feeling.
Affect = what you observe.
A patient can say they feel “fine” while looking tearful, flat, or withdrawn. That difference matters clinically 🧠
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#Psychiatry#PMHNP#MentalHealth
ADHD isn’t always “can’t sit still.”
Sometimes it looks like unfinished tasks, overstimulation, time blindness, and 37 tabs open 😭
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#ADHD#MentalHealth#Psychiatry#PMHNP#Neurodivergent
POV: you’re building your psych/PMHNP community from scratch 🧠☕️
Hi, I’m Kiara — the face behind PsychiatryWithKiara ✨
I create content about:
• psychiatry & mental health
• PMHNP school/clinicals
• psych meds explained simply
• real-life psych nursing & provider insights
POV: You finally understand how to conduct a FULL psychiatric evaluation 👩🏽⚕️🧠✨
Not just “How are you feeling?” 😭
A real psych eval includes:
💗 Safety + rapport
🗣 Chief complaint
📚 Psych history
🧠 MSE
⚠️ Risk assessment
🩺 Diagnosis + differential
📝 Treatment planning