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Case Study Review of Patient's Experience : Mental Illness

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Case Study Review of Patient's Experience : Mental Illness

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TABLE OF CONTENTSPRESENTATION ...........................................................................................................................1PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT ..........................................................................................................1MENTAL/EMOTIONAL ASSESSMENT ....................................................................................2BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY ........................................................................................................2PAST PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY ...........................................................3COLLABORATIVE/CORROBORATIVE HISTORY ..................................................................4DIAGNOSIS ...................................................................................................................................4COMMON INTERVENTIONS AND RECOVERY PLAN ..........................................................6ENGAGEMENT .............................................................................................................................7REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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PRESENTATION When human brain is affected by some serious disorders then respective individual issaid to be suffering from mental illness. In the present case study, the mental illness of Dora(pseudo name generated due to ethical considerations) a 22 year old girl, will be discussed indepth. She is suffering from schizophrenia- a severe mental condition that highlights theabnormalities in social behaviour of the person. Her family recognised that Dora was depictingquite an unusual behaviour with her friends and family members. She complained of listeningsounds that do not exist and visualise situations which actually did not happen (hallucinations).These were indications that forced her family to seek medical consultations. Dora's mother reported that she has been noticing changes/symptoms in her behaviour inthe past 2 months. On the other hand, Dora herself accounted that she started visualising thingssince 6 months. The patient was followed-up quite quickly after the initial check-up. The follow-up involved consultation with a psychiatrist for about a week. In case the occurrence of delusionsand hallucinations increase, the patient has to be immediately hospitalised (Bortolon,Capdevielle and Raffard, 2015). PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT Before the doctor prescribes any sort of tests or medicines, there is a physical assessmentconducted (Khademvatan and Yousefi, 2014). For Dora, this assessment included general check-up of the vitals which included blood pressure, weight, eye movements and pulse rate. Theinvoluntary movements of body and diverging actions, repetitive motions, check up of twitchesand tics are some of the parameters that are considered during the physical examination (Rasicand et.al., 2014). The doctor identified that Dora blinked her eyes very less while swung her legin a pendulum motion continuously. It was also recognised that Dora's weight was normal butshe kept her head tilted towards one direction as if continuously listening to some other person'stalks.The physical assessment conducted by medical practitioner describes very abnormalsocial behaviour of the patient. Physical abnormalities portray that patient's mental state is notstable and there are some mental barriers which are causing the patient to behave in such amysterious manner (Physical Exam for Schizophrenia, 2015). 1
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