100 cases in psychiatry

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This book covers a range of topics such as phobias, bereavement, and paranoia, across the following subject areas: adult psychiatry, older people, forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and learning disability psychiatry. Abstract: This book covers a range of topics such as phobias, bereavement, and paranoia, across the following subject areas: adult psychiatry, older people, forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and learning disability psychiatry Content: Machine generated contents note: Case 1 How can you assess mental state? -- Case 2 He doesn't listen to me -- Case 3 `Stressed' -- Case 4 Sick note -- Case 5 Checking -- Case 6 Having a heart attack -- Case 7 Going through a bad patch -- Case 8 I'm putting weight on -- Case 9 Unresponsive in the emergency department -- Case 10 Feeling Empty -- Case 11 I don't want pills, I want someone to talk to -- Case 12 Never felt better -- Case 13 Aches and pains and loss of interest -- Case 14 Constantly tearful -- Case 15 Voices comment on everything I do -- Case 16 I only smoked a bit of cannabis and took a couple of Es -- Case 17 Unusual persecutory beliefs -- Case 18 Abdominal pain in general practice -- Case 19 There is something wrong with him -- Case 20 A drink a day to keep my problems at bay -- Case 21 Paracetamol overdose -- Case 22 Fear of spiders -- Case 23 Deja vu and amnesia -- Case 24 Self-harming, substance misuse and volatile relationships Note continued: Case 25 My husband won't let me go out -- Case 26 Intensely fearful hallucinations -- Case 27 Flashbacks and nightmares -- Case 28 Unsteady gait -- Case 29 This pain just won't go away -- Case 30 Can't concentrate after his daughter died -- Case 31 Something's not quite right -- Case 32 Tricyclic antidepressant overdose -- Case 33 Suicidal risk assessment -- Case 34 Suspicious and jerky movements -- Case 35 My nose is too big and ugly -- Case 36 Can I Treat Her Against Her Will? -- Case 37 Disinhibited and behaving oddly -- Case 38 What is going on in this consultation? -- Case 39 Things are getting worse -- Case 40 Diarrhoea and vomiting after irregular eating -- Case 41 Fever and confusion -- Case 42 `Alien impulses' and risk to others -- Case 43 Feels like the room is changing shape -- Case 44 Unable to open my fists -- Case 45 Intense fatigue -- Case 46 Hallucinations in someone with epilepsy -- Case 47 I'm impotent Note continued: Case 48 I love him but I don't want sex -- Case 49 Heroin addiction -- Case 50 Exhibitionism -- Case 51 Irritable, aggressive and on a mission -- Case 52 What happens when he's 18? -- Case 53 Thoughts of killing her baby -- Case 54 My wife is having an affair -- Case 55 A man in police custody -- Case 56 Stalking -- Case 57 An angry man -- Case 58 The treatment isn't working -- Case 59 The drugs aren't helping -- Case 60 Low mood and tired all of the time -- Case 61 A profoundly deaf man `hearing voices' -- Case 62 I am sure I am not well -- Case 63 Repeating the same story over and over again -- Case 64 Increasingly forgetful, confused and suspicious -- Case 65 Seeing flies on the ceiling -- Case 66 Cognitive impairment with visual hallucinations -- Case 67 I think my wife is poisoning my food -- Case 68 Acute agitation in a medical inpatient -- Case 69 She is not eating or drinking anything Note continued: Case 70 A restless postoperative patient who won't stay In bed -- Case 71 Mood changes -- Case 72 She is refusing treatment. Her decision is wrong. She must be mentally Ill -- Case 73 Low mood -- Case 74 My wife is an impostor -- Case 75 Marked tremor, getting worse -- Case 76 He can't sit still -- Case 77 Socially isolated -- Case 78 Killed his friend's hamster and in trouble all the time -- Case 79 I only fainted: don't fuss and leave me alone -- Case 80 Cutting on the forearms -- Case 81 Feelings of guilt -- Case 82 Intense feelings of worthlessness -- Case 83 Seeing things that aren't there -- Case 84 She is so clingy. It's like having a shadow -- Case 85 Soiling behind sofa -- Case 86 She won't say anything at school -- Case 87 Checking -- Case 88 Not eating, moving or speaking -- Case 89 He's only being friendly isn't he? -- Case 90 Tantrums -- Case 91 He wants to be a girl -- Case 92 Blood in the urine of a healthy girl Note continued: Case 93 Can I get the pill? -- Case 94 He doesn't play with other children -- Case 95 Trouble in the classroom -- Case 96 Restlessness -- Case 97 A man with Down syndrome is not coping -- Case 98 Learning difficulties, behaviour problems and repetitive behaviour -- Case 99 Malaise and high blood pressure -- Case 100 Compulsive and aggressive behaviour in a man with Down syndrome.