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A 64-year-old woman attends the general practice with six weeks of low mood, tearfulness, broken sleep and loss of interest in everything she used to enjoy. Fiv…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 61-year-old man is brought by his daughter seven months after his wife died. He has lost 9 kg, wakes at 3 am, and has not gone back to the bowls club or to hi…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 27-year-old man is assessed in the emergency department short-stay unit with three weeks of low mood, waking at 4 am and hopelessness. He has had two similar…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman is referred because of mood swings since her late teens. Twice in two years she has had six-day spells of sleeping three hours a night, talk…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old man is reviewed in the cardiology clinic eight weeks after an anterior myocardial infarction. He meets criteria for a moderate depressive episode…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 71-year-old man is three months into rehabilitation after a left middle cerebral artery infarct. He eats little and has lost 4 kg. He wakes at 4 am and cannot…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old university student had her first episode of psychosis nine months ago and has been in full remission on aripiprazole for the past seven months. Sh…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia took risperidone 6 mg daily for ten weeks and then olanzapine 20 mg daily for twelve weeks. His case manager supervises eac…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has recovered from his first episode of schizophrenia and has been well on aripiprazole for four months. He has moved back in with his parents…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is admitted with a first episode of psychosis after eight weeks of persecutory beliefs and voices. He has never taken an antipsychotic. His bo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 21-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department at 2 am by police after he was found standing on a freeway overpass. He says a voice has been te…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by police after being found shouting at parked cars. He is guarded, gives his name and little else, and…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 17-year-old is brought to the general practitioner by his father, whose own brother has schizophrenia. Over eight months the boy's grades have fallen, he has…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 25-year-old man has taken risperidone 4 mg at night for six months for schizophrenia, and his voices and persecutory beliefs have gone. His mother says he now…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old woman is reviewed at home on day 8 after the birth of her first child. Over three days she has slept about two hours a night, talks rapidly about…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 23-year-old apprentice has had persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions continuously for three months. He has stopped attending work and rarel…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
An 81-year-old widow has told her general practitioner at three visits over four months that a neighbour lets himself into her flat at night and moves her furni…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 47-year-old woman, whose mother died six weeks ago, tells her general practitioner that she has three times seen and spoken with her mother in the family home…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is admitted at 11 pm with a first episode of psychosis. He has had six weeks of persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions, and…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 22-year-old woman is admitted after three weeks of increasingly odd behaviour. Her mother says she had a flu-like illness a month ago, then became convinced h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche