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Purpose: Psychiatric emergencies are clinical tables in which individual mental, emotional and behavioral disorders pose a threat to the patient himself or other people and require urgent psychiatric assistance. Emergency psychiatric conditions are also seen in chronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, psychiatric symptoms in medical disorders, poisoning, drug use, drug side effects and psychosocial stress disorders. Method: Medical files of 241 patients requested psychiatric consultation from emergency service for a year have been examined. The findings: The diagnoses given to the psychiatric consultations are anxiety disorder, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, disorder of conformity, psychotic disorder, conversion, alcohol-substantial addiction, and others. Discussions: Our work is the first work done in the east of Anadolu. The findings obtained in this study, where the psychiatric consultations requested from emergency services are examined, may be useful in the planning of services for psychiatric emergencies. The high rates of recurrence and deposits of chronic psychiatric diseases emphasize the importance of protective mental health policies.

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