Anxiety Disorder: Diagnosis, Legal Status, Risk, Treatment Plan, and Discharge

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CONTENTS
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Presenting symptoms of Diagnosis..............................................................................................3
Legal status according to NSW Mental Health Act (2007).........................................................3
Risk associated with diagnosis....................................................................................................4
Treatment plan for individual care..............................................................................................5
Evidence about ready for discharge.............................................................................................5
Suggestion services for discharge into community setting..........................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Mental health can be stated as a emotional, behavioural and cognitive wellbeing of an
individual. It is about the way individuals behave, feel and think (Gibby, Casline and Ginsburg,
2017). In every stage of life, mental health is very important as it influence the emotions
thoughts and behaviours of an individual. This report is based on the case study of Julie who is
48 years old women, previously diagnosed with anxiety and find a doctor or psychologist. This
report covers the sentence of diagnosis as per DSM-5 and the legal status Julie according to
NSW mental health act. Additionally, it also details about the risk in diagnosis, treatment plan of
Julie and evidence that ensure that she is ready to get discharge.
Presenting symptoms of Diagnosis
When Julie started remain more worried and disturbed like she uses to stay alone, cry
several times a day and also pacing in kitchen. These al are the symptoms of getting uneasy and
uncomfortable with the situation or something that is going within her mind. So, getting a normal
check up by a local general practitioner she is diagnosed with anxiety. As according to the
criteria specified with in DSM-5, an individual experiencing symptom like,
 Feeling restlessness or keyed up or on edge.
 Experiencing sleeping disturbance
 Get fatigued easily
 Person find it difficult to control worries or emotions
These are the symptoms when an individual is experiencing from some days but not more
than six months is consider under the condition of anxiety disorder which is usually occurs either
due to worries, embarrassed in public, become contaminated, gaining weight, away from home
etc. (Substance and Mental, 2016) In case of Julie, she is living alone, found issue in getting
social interaction due to her incident of argument with old man in Aldi and after that she found
difficult to asleep, get emotional too often and remain disturb always. So, these all symptoms are
according to criteria decided by DSM-5 for anxiety disorder.
Legal status according to NSW Mental Health Act (2007)
As per the scenario Julie is facing certain kind of mental disturbance due to way of their
living as she use to lives alone and after her argument with old man in Aldi this issue get more
increased. She is experiencing anxiety and also remain disturbed as that situation of
embarrassment recall again and again which make her hurt as well as emotionally instable. So,
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