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Running head: CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERSCRITICAL CASE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERSName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:

2CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERSIntroduction:Mental health disorders can be described as the condition that is seen to affect thethinking, feeling as well as mood of persons. Such a situation can be seen to affect the ability ofan individual to relate to others and even functioning of everyday. It has been interesting to seethat even individuals will have different experiences although they may be diagnosed with thesame disorders (Ramsay et al. 2017). Here, the mental healthcare professionals need to considerrecovery of the patients in ways by which they would not only overcome the disorders but alsohave proper social life to live a better quality life. Researchers have stated that in most cases, amental health condition is not the result of a single event but multiple linking causes of a largenumber of events (Valmaiki et al. 2016). Often a large number of factors are responsible thataffect the mental health stability of individuals. Genetic, environment as well as lifestyle hasbeen seen to have major impacts on the mental health condition of individuals. Often stressfulprofessional as well personal lives or victims of traumatic life events are seen to be morevulnerable to the development of mental health conditions (Kantrowitz et al. 2016). Biochemicalprocedures as well as different types of circuits and basic brain structures are also contributingfactors that result in mental disorders. This assignment will mainly show about how nursingprofessionals diagnose mental health disorders and how with the help of bio-psycho-social modelof healthcare, they can successfully develop care plans which will help the patients to live betterquality life.Critical thinking conducted by healthcare professionals and development of care plan:When the patient had reached to the hospital in the nation of United Kingdom, she waspanicking massively and wanted to kill herself to be free from ‘pain’. The nursing professionals

3CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERScommunicated with her in a compassionate manner and tried to cool her down. She was notbeing able to trust anyone and was searching for objects to kill her. After repeated counseling ofthe patient and talking with her in compassionate manner, she finally cooled down. Throughoutthe first few hours, she was seen to talk to someone whom, only she claimed to see. When shewas collected down and asked about what she is seeing, she stated that her uncle frequentlydisturbs her. Her husband disclosed that her uncle mentally, physically and sexually assaultedher until the time of 18 years. It was after her marriage with her husband, he came to understandall the issues and to give her better life, and he had taken her to Australia. However, situationshad not been better also for them, as the patient always seems to hear the voice of his unclestrangling her or assaulting her. The periods come back to her again and again which makes herfeel like killing herself to get rid of mental stress and pain. She had also stated that drinkingalcohol and other such drugs help her to reduce her pain and help her to release her tensions andstress and therefore she spends most of the time on such substances. Therefore, the senior nursescritically analyzed the situations and framed out the main reasons that had affected her. Shestated that the priority areas that need to be addressed in the patient are her extreme dependenceon substances like alcohol and other drugs that will affect her both mentally and physically.Another priority area that also needs to be addressed by the nurses is her symptoms ofschizophrenia. She is having both auditory and visual hallucinations that are torturing her andmaking her lead bad quality of life. She has high risk of harming herself to make her free fromthe immense pain that the hallucinations are providing her and therefore proper care should betaken to make her free from any sort of self-harm. Therefore, schizophrenia and alcohol andsubstance abuse disorder are the identified priority areas witnessed by the nursing professionalsthat need to be treated.

4CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERSDual diagnosis:Dual diagnosis can be defined as the condition when individuals have multiple needs thatinclude both physical and mental issues and have dual mental health and substance abuseproblem. They are seen to be struggling as well as unemployed and cannot hold on their job.They could be also in abusive relationship. In the depicted case also, the patient is suffering fromdual mental health conditions of schizophrenia and substance abuse disorders and were also inabusive relationship ("New NICE guidance on dual diagnosis is 'desperately needed'" 2018).Therefore, the nursing professional would also incorporate bio-psychosocial model of treatmentfor diagnosing the issues and developing care plans. Here, the professionals not only try todetermine the biological determiners but also try to find out whether any social or psychologicaldeterminants of health are affecting the clients or not (Stafford et al. 2015)..Discussion of the symptoms of schizophrenia:Researchers are of the opinion that schizophrenia is a type of psychosis that is a type ofmental illness. In this type of mental illness, persons are not able to differentiate between thereality and what is imagined. They seem to lose touch with reality and the entire world seem tobe a jumbled place containing different types of confusing thoughts, sounds as well as images.The behavior of people with schizophrenia seems to be strange and shocking to the people of thesociety (Vancampfort et al. 2016). A sudden change that takes place in the individuals inbehavior as well as in personality takes place when people suffering from schizophrenia are seento lose touch with reality is called as the psychotic episode. Similarly, in case of Maryam as well,several psychotic episodes had take place. Researchers are of the opinion that hallucinations are

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