Psych Gumbo » OCD https://www.psychgumbo.com Mental Health for the New Orleans and Tulane Community Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:51:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Self-injury is common and treatable in college https://www.psychgumbo.com/2013/11/14/cutting-in-college/ https://www.psychgumbo.com/2013/11/14/cutting-in-college/#comments Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:02:47 +0000 Psychgumbo https://psychgumbo.com/?p=303 cutting image

As a psychiatry resident working in New Orleans, I have the opportunity to treat a wide range of interesting people. I also have the great opportunity to work with college students when they show up to the Tulane emergency room in crisis. Something that I often see in these students and other young adults is a pattern of self-injury.

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