Pt is a 13 y/o female dx with Schizophrenia, who presented to NNBHC with active psychosis with command to harmself and other. Pt states she currently have a plan to hang herself when everyone is sleep. Pt also states she has been having a difficulty with controlling her anger in the home with her younger brother. Pt states on Saturday that she took a bath, while in the bathtub the audio hallucinations were telling her to “go lower”. Pt states that she was submerged underwater, where she felt her chest burning, and her heart rate decreased.…
Cynthia is a 29-year-old financial planner who is married and the mother of three children. Her husband brought her to the emergency room after having spent the past 12 days in “another cycle of depression,” marked by a quick temper, almost no sleep and tearfulness. He noted that these “dark periods” have gone on as long as he has known her but that she had experienced at least a half dozen of these episodes in the prior year. Cynthia’s husband reported that her mood typically stabilizes within a few weeks of restarting her fluoxetine. He added that he wondered whether alcohol and clonazepam worsened her symptoms, because she routinely ramped up their use when the dark periods begin.…
The article “Schizophrenia” by Nancy Piotrowski and Leslie Tischauser highlights great information and sound background on the severe mental disorder. The article covers five key questions: What is schizophrenia? What are the causes? What are the symptoms? What is the duration?…
Introduction Schizophrenia comes from Greek origin and means, "split mind" (Coconcea, 2004). This is not to be confused that schizophrenia refers to a split-personality disorder. People with schizophrenia don’t have separate personalities. These are two extremely different disorders, yet many people have made this mistake in the Western culture. Another common assumption many people tend to make is that schizophrenics are violent and dangerous.…
Reading this book really opened my eyes to understand what individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia go through and how terrible it can be to have this illness and the impact it could create in a family. In her personal memoir, Lori explained how she…
Society has dealt with detrimental illnesses for centuries, but have now recently began to dissect the many levels of mental disorders. The condition of mental illness affects an individuals’ overall wellness, emotional state and ability to function normally on a daily basis. Mental illnesses such as, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and phobias were commonly known and treated throughout time. But, in the late 19th century a new and severe mental illness was discovered, known as, Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is produced by a number of external and internal components such as, genes, environment, level of emotional and physical stress and many other factors.…
X was a bright, ambitious and energetic person, and he was loved by everyone alike. After years of hard work, he’d gotten into law school and was finally living his dream he had struggled so long for. He was also my best friend. When I came back home from college that year, I was met with somber and anxious faces rather than smiles and hugs. Blankly, I looked at my father’s face when he broke the shocking news that X had passed away from a drug overdose.…
This article was written to help the reader understand Schizophrenia. It describes the symptoms such as hallucinations, delusion and unusual behavior. It describes how dramatically this illness can control ones social, educational, and vocational functions. It states that there are a few treatment options such as anti-psychotic medications and counseling but the illness would never completely leave the host. The author says that there is a higher concentration of Schizophrenics in jail than there are in the general population.…
I was nine when I discovered my brother had paranoid schizophrenia. After overhearing a commotion coming from downstairs, I quietly peered into my family room. There my brother laid, red faced, hyperventilating, and yelling for the things filling his mind to stop. I witnessed the confusion upon my mother’s face, wondering why her twenty year old son would not stop screaming. This initial memory of my brother’s condition would be the beginning of an eight year crusade to combat his illness.…
There’s nothing better than the sound of a laughing child. Unless,you’re like me and you live alone. I was lucky to have a brain,where all the chemicals flowed to their proper destination like never-ending rivers. Agatha,my sister,was never able to surpass me with her illness at hand. Schizophrenia,a disorder of mentality,had caused her to see the unseen.…
Imagine feeling different, not being able to go about your normal life, or just thinking everything is wrong with you. Imagine trying to figure out how to walk up stairs, or how to work simple questions. Most of the activities we do in our day to day life and don’t appreciate a person with a mental disorder is struggling to overcome. Mental illness is a condition were it affects a person’s emotions, thinking, and behavior. In the past mental illnesses were seen as a sort of religious punishment, or a personal problem.…
Nathaniel is a 58 year-old single African American homeless man who suffers from a mental illness that lives in the city of Los Angeles. Nathaniel began experiencing delusions, hallucination, and hearing voices when he was a young boy. When Nathanial was approximetly13 years old he had his first hallucination, in which he saw a car that was on fire and that it was driving away. Nathanial’s mental illness has progressed as he has become older.…
Have you ever seen a film, television show, play, or read a book where the main character hears voices, sees things that are not there, and has trouble coping with daily activities? Chances are this character is suffering from a disorder known as schizophrenia. Schizophrenia can occur for a number of reason and cause various symptoms to occur for people who suffer from the disorder. Many people around the world suffer from schizophrenia, a psychotic disorder that creates various symptoms that make it hard for them to function in society, however there are many types of treatments that can put sufferers into remission if utilized properly. Literature Review…
Introduction and context Luke is a 19 year old man who was brought in to the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) in protective custody under an assessment order and an interment treatment order to an acute mental health facility with a diagnosis of drug induced psychosis and querying schizophrenia. Luke comes from a low socioeconomic background and is currently receiving youth allowance payments. Luke is a smoker with a history of illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Luke has recently moved back to Tasmania after living in Queensland for the past nine months, and is now currently homeless.…
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects at least 27 million people in the world, and affects even more people in underdeveloped countries. As a psychotic disorder, its symptoms include a loss of reality, hallucinations, delusions, and thought disruptions. This disease has no cure, and persons can be diagnosed with schizophrenia as early as 16 years old. There are many traditional treatments for schizophrenia that help relieve the patients’ symptoms, such as the use of psychoactive drugs. However, many patients diagnosed with schizophrenia have problems adhering to their medication, or even taking it to begin with; they believe the medication does not help them, since they are unable to understand the severity of their disorder.…