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Psychiatry
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Psychiatry is the study of mental health, which affects how you behave, think and feel. A doctor who does psychiatry is called a psychiatrist. This type of doctor will try to diagnosis, treat and prevent mental illness.

There are a lot of different types of mental illness. There are other types of doctors that can help with mental illness, like psychologists, but only a psychiatrist can prescribe you medicine to help.