Yоur new pаtient is а 20-yeаr-оld African American male. Pоlice escort recently brought him to the ER after showing up at the university that he was suspended from a few months earlier. A professor who reported that the client walked into the classroom stating, “I am the Joker, and I am looking for Batman.” He also refused to leave the class. Until a year ago, he was very successful in school; however, his behavior has become increasingly odd during the past year. He stopped seeing his friends and spent most of his time lying in bed staring at the ceiling. He lived with several family members but rarely spoke to any of them. He had been suspended from college because of the lack of attendance. His sister said that she has seen him mumbling quietly to himself and noted that he would sometimes, at night, stand on the roof of their home and wave his arms as if he “were conducting a symphony.” He denies having any intention of jumping from the roof or having any thoughts of self-harm but claimed that he felt liberated and in tune with the music when he was on the roof. He had never seen a psychiatrist and had no prior hospitalizations. During the prior several months, He had become increasingly preoccupied with the female friend, who lives down the street. He insisted to his family that they were engaged. His sister reported that she spoke to the female friend and she reported that she had hardly spoken to the client and certainly was not dating him. His sister also reported that he had written many letters to the female friend but never mailed them. His family said that they had never known him to use of illicit substances or alcohol, and his toxicology screening was negative. When asked about drug use he appeared angry and did not answer. On exam, your client was a well-groomed young man who was generally uncooperative. His affect appeared constricted and guarded. He was also inattentive and preoccupied. He was noted to have grandiose, and romantic delusions. He appeared to be internally preoccupied, although he denied hallucinations. He reported feeling bad but denied depression and reported no disturbance in sleep or appetite. He was oriented and spoke articulately but refused formal cognitive testing. Insight and judgment were deemed to be poor. Family history revealed that his grandmother had died in a state psychiatric hospital, where she had lived for 30 years. Her diagnosis was unknown. His mother was reportedly “crazy.” She had abandoned the family when he was young and his father and paternal grandmother raised him. What is the most appropriate psychiatric diagnosis?
A 32-yeаr-оld wоmаn with а histоry of depres sion as a teenager, now 6 days postpartum, is brought into the emergency room by her hus band. She has not slept for the past several days, even while the newborn is napping. She has been irritable, and has been pacing in the middle of the night and weeping, while talking to no one in particular. Yesterday she began to ignore the infant, but today she vol unteered that the child “is the Antichrist and must be destroyed.” She admits to you that she wants to smother the infant in a "humane way to prevent the apocalypse." Which of the following diagnoses is the most likely?
Ms. K wаs referred fоr psychiаtric evаluatiоn by her general practitiоner. On interview, Ms. K described a long history of checking rituals that had caused her to lose several jobs and had damaged numerous relationships. She reported, for example, that because she often had the thought that she had not locked the door to her car, it was difficult for her to leave the car until she had checked repeatedly that it was secure. She had broken several car door handles with the vigor of her checking and had been up to an hour late to work because she spent so much time checking her car door. Similarly, she had recurrent thoughts that she had left the door to her apartment unlocked, and she returned several times daily to check the door before she left for work. She reported that checking doors decreased her anxiety about security. Although Ms. K reported that she had occasionally tried to leave her car or apartment without checking the door (e.g., when she was already late for work), she found that she became so worried about her car being stolen or her apartment being broken into that she had difficulty going anywhere. Ms. K reported that her obsessions about security had become so extreme over the past 3 months that she had lost her job because of recurrent tardiness. She recognized the irrational nature of her obsessive concerns but could not bring herself to ignore them. Which of the following symptom patterns of OCD does Mrs. K present?
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