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A 58-year-old man is on the surgical ward on the second day after an elective inguinal hernia repair. He is anxious and sweating, his hands tremble, and he has…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 27-year-old man with obsessive compulsive disorder has checking rituals that make him two hours late for work most days. He completed 16 sessions of cognitive…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 31-year-old teacher describes eight months of constant worry about her students, her mortgage and her parents' health that she cannot switch off. She is tense…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 36-year-old woman was abused by a relative between the ages of six and sixteen. She has nightmares about it, avoids the suburb where it happened and startles…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
Nineteen days after being pulled from a burning car, a 34-year-old man cannot stop seeing the flames whenever he closes his eyes. He wakes several times a night…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old woman is seen at home on day 10 after an uncomplicated birth. She describes repeated images of stabbing her baby that come into her mind while she…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 20-year-old warehouse worker has spent five hours a day washing since he handled a leaking drum of solvent three months ago. He is certain he will poison his…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman is referred with six months of worry, restlessness and broken sleep. She has never been anxious before and can point to no trigger. She has…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 29-year-old woman has had six months of abrupt attacks of pounding heartbeat, breathlessness and tingling fingers that peak within minutes. They have come on…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
At a hospital grand round on mental health funding, a registrar is asked how much Australia spends on mental health. She finds several different figures in circ…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
A general practice in Perth is planning how to staff its mental health clinics and asks a medical student to summarise the most recent national data. The studen…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man with bipolar I disorder is reviewed in the community mental health clinic. He was admitted at 22 with a manic episode and stopped lithium thre…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old woman has been fully well for eight months on sertraline 100 mg daily. This is her fourth depressive episode; the previous three, at 30, 34 and 39…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 31-year-old primary school teacher has felt low, flat and tearful for seven weeks. She still gets to work every day but finds preparing lessons harder than us…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 47-year-old farmer is brought to a regional emergency department by his brother. Over three months he has withdrawn from the family, stopped eating with them…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 58-year-old man with a three-month depressive episode tells his general practitioner, quietly and without being asked, that he has been thinking about ending…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 79-year-old woman was started on sertraline three weeks ago for her first depressive episode. Her daughter brings her to the emergency department because over…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl is brought by her mother, who says that for four months she has snapped at everyone, slipped from top of the class to failing, given up netba…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 32-year-old woman attends the child health clinic six weeks after an uncomplicated birth. For a month she has felt flat throughout the day, has taken no pleas…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 74-year-old woman has been an inpatient for five weeks with a severe depressive episode. She has completed adequate trials of sertraline and then venlafaxine…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche