Alysia Hohbein Case Study #1 1. Mr. Peters had schizoaffective/psychotic disorder. The diagnosis causes him to have delusions of impending doom and suicide ideation. He has difficulty walking, moves slowly and tires quickly.…
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 patient is a 56 year old male who presented to the ED via LEO under IVC with Homicidal thoughts of harming his brother with an axes. The patient denies suicidal ideation and symptoms of psychosis. The patient denies depressive symptoms. The patient reports conflict between his brother and him as the primary contributing factor to his distress. The patient does not appear to be responding to any internal stimuli.…
The problem with Emily In the passage “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the protagonist Emily Grierson who lived in the south where a person’s social class determined the expectations of a person’s behavior and how society viewed and treated them. Emily Grierson is an older woman who comes from a wealthy family but suffers from schizophrenia. “Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent, illogical thoughts, and bizarre behavior” (Kazdin 2000) Miss Emily goes through many obstacles and the town of Jefferson where she resided feels pity for her but Miss Emily still demands respect and dignity.…
Patient is a 39-year-old female who presented with acute psychotic features. LEO brought patient into the ED. At the time of assessment, patient denies suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, and symptoms of psychosis. Patient states, " I'm her because the cop came and got me, it is probably because she is an alcoholic. The patient during the assessments continuous talks to individuals that are not in the room.…
REASON CHIEF COMPLAINT: A 39-year-old male with a past history of a metastatic high-grade epithelial tumor with rectal bleeding. I am seeing him for the first time. BLANKLINE This is an unfortunate 39-year-old, Afro-American male who was diagnosed elsewhere with an intraabdominal epithelial tumor. He initially presented with the GI bleed.…
The patient is a 34 year old female who presented to the ED via LEO with acute psychosis. The patient denies homicidal ideation,suicidal ideation, and symptoms of psychosis. At the time of the assessment the patient states, "I hear my boyfriend in the van out there, he killed my mother, they tried to poison last night after they kidnapped me." Patient reports depressive symptoms as tearfulness, irritability, anger, fatigue, and insomnia. The patient denies auditory and visual hallucinations.…
of Schizophrenia, in the patient’s first episode and currently in an acute episode (American Psychiatric Association & American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Social, biological, cultural, and environmental factors Curtis is a White working class man and his family resides in a rural environment and a labor/construction-based town in Ohio. Curtis and Samantha are parents to a recently Deaf child so orienting to Deaf culture is a process they are both undergoing throughout the film.…
Presenting Problem: Pt is a 11yo male that was brought to NNBHC accompanied by his parents after speaking with the crisis team about suicidal ideation. Pt reports of being in an altercation with his father last night, where he kicked him in his gentials and stated he was trying to “kill him”. Pt states he does not know the what precursors taken placed before the event. Pt states SI with a plan to “jump off a roof or use a butcher knife to stab himself in the chest”. Pt states that he use to hear voices when he was sleeping, however he now hears the voices when he is awake.…
Moving through the diagnostic criteria, there are times throughout Frank’s life were the reappearance of his symptoms has caused him problems in his everyday life. Criteria B states that during an onset of the disease there has to be a problem in one or more area such as interpersonal relations, self-care, and work. Frank has problems in two of these areas. He also meets Criteria C because he has lived with this disorder for twelve years. For Criteria D, all those disorders have been ruled out so he was eventually diagnosed with Schizophrenia.…
Client Introduction JL is a 54 year old women with a Caucasian decent, she was put into the system at age 5 where she was in and out of different foster homes. She was finally put into the system here at the DCLS program about 35 years ago. She comes to Scott Road Connections everyday through the entire year. She is 5’4’’ and weighs 145lbs.…
clinical symptoms of schizophrenia and can be auditory or visual (Lane, 2015). Visual hallucinations involve the schizophrenic seeing things that other people cannot see. Auditory hallucinations are when voices can be heard inside a person’s head and may be threatening or abusive. These hallucinations are very common and are experienced by almost 70% of schizophrenics. Another clinical characteristic of schizophrenia is anhedonia, an “inability to experience pleasure” (Dawd et al., 2009).…
Question 1 A) The article has a lot of information on Teresa but, it would be helpful to know if other members of her family also dealt with her condition. The kind of medication, Teresa took in the past would be helpful because as the article stated she did not like the side effects. Finding new medication without any side-effects can help her a great deal. With new medication Teresa would be able to cope better with life. B)…
Liu, a middle aged man with Schizophrenia was my first patient on the locked Psychiatric ward. He was deported from New Zealand after he heard voices instructing him to stab his wife and their neighbor. Throughout our relationship, I began feeling more comfortable asking him about his hallucinations and I felt as if we were connecting. During his last hour of stay at the hospital waiting for his family to take him home, I was convinced that Liu was accepting his Schizophrenia and would use his obvious intellect to manage his disease and move forward with his life. The two weeks later we got a consultation request from Emergency department for self injury.…
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…