Case Study: Schizotypal Personality Disorder

From a sociocultural viewpoint would suggest that maybe his race, as well as his country, and social environment could play a role in his schizophrenia also people labeling him as not normal could have played a role in a self fulfilling prophecy. Sociocultural views may also suggest that family stresses may have been a contribution to his schizophrenia.

Divided Minds is a powerful, heart wrenching memoir written by two twin sisters, Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro about their journey through schizophrenia. Early on in their lives, Pamela is seen as the dominant and more outgoing twin. Pamela was creative, social, and intellectually bright. Carolyn often felt like she lived in the shadow of Pamela and could not quite measure up. When the girls were in the sixth grade, the first symptoms of Pamela’s future disorder appeared when the news of President Kennedy’s assassination broke and Pamela thought that she was somehow involved and to blame for his death. She begins to hear voices that would haunt her for years and her condition worsens throughout her adolescence. Pamela and Carolyn both attended Brown University and while Carolyn flourished in school, Pamela became moody and depressed. During their freshman year, Pamela’s episodes of irrationality become more extreme and she became very withdrawn. She has her first major breakdown and overdosed on sleeping pills. This was the beginning of the numerous hospitalizations and sessions with psychiatrists that would soon become a huge part of her life.

It is imperative to seek treatment for children or adolescents who present with the onset of serious mental illness. Early-onset of illness is a high prediction of poor outcomes for the patient. Severe mental illness diagnoses include schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. The schizophrenia spectrum includes schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder and xxxx. The diagnoses fall into xxx categories; xxx, xxxx and xxx. Early onset of schizophrenia (EOS) before the age of 13, is very rare at 0.04 % of population in the United States. EOS is before the age of 18, 0.5% of U.S. population. Children and adolescents make up xxx of the psychiatric patient in the United States. The DSM-5

The participants were 238 undergraduate students (75 males and 163 females) in the first year of their degree, aged 17 to 25 years (M = 19.60 years, SD = 2.32). Participants reported no history of neurological or psychiatric illness, and received course credits for participation.

A Battle Against Himself CONNECTICUT - Ken Steele has heard voices most of his life. He was 14 years old when he started having auditory hallucinations. These voices commanded him to hurt himself and they were predicting his death. "Hang yourself," the voices told him. "The world will be better off. You 're no good, no good at all." The voices got louder and louder everyday and he was no longer in control of his life. They were. Ken’s behavior unexpectedly changed and Ken’s parents grew worried. No one was aware of what has happening. They took him to the family doctor, who announced that Ken had schizophrenia. Ken Steele at the age of 14 Subsequently,

Terrance is a 15 year old, American Black male. He is 5’9 ft tall in height, thin built, shadow facial hair above his lip. Also, he speaks with a deep voice due to the changes that adolescence occur at that age. His hair was neatly trimmed and he was casually dressed in sweats and t-shirt. During the observation, I noticed how well spoken and articulate he answered my questions. He gave eye to eye contact when answering questions. He was confident but only gave short answers. He kept looking at the clock because he was ready to play his PlayStation.

The estimated incidence of urea cycle disorders varies between 1 in 8,000 and 1 in 44,000 births. Since many cases of urea cycle disorders remain undiagnosed and/or infants born with the disorders die without a definitive diagnosis, the exact incidence of these cases is unknown and is underestimated6,8.

Furthermore, this patient meets the criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder (F40.10) as evidenced by poor relationship with people, inability to make or keep friends, fear of panicking or doing something wrong as well as inability to communicate or associate with people who are not members of his family. His symptoms have persisted for over a period of 6 months and causes impairment in his social and school live (DSM-5,

On the basis of symptoms experienced by schizophrenic people there are 5 subtypes of schizophrenia namely: Paranoid, Catatonic, Disorganized, Undifferentiated and Residual (Barlow and Durand, 2002). These subtypes can vary during course of illness. Paranoid schizophrenia is specified by illogical feelings and positive symptoms. People with this type experience delusion and hallucination. These people have better prognosis than other types. Disorganized schizophrenia also named as hebephrenic schizophrenia. It is characterized by disturbance of speech and behavior. People with disorganized schizophrenia show flat effect. Sign of this one are difficult to recognize at early stage so they become chronic and result in lacking of remission. Catatonic

My aunt was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 15 years old and had gone untreated for most of her adult life. She has always lived with my grandma and growing up, I remember seeing how easily she became agitated with my grandma in seemingly normal problems and situations., I recall hearing her talk to herself, and I remember how hard it was to explain concepts to her. Because of her escalating symptoms, my grandma and my aunt decided to take the steps to seek treatment so that she can become more independent. Through this, I have seen that there are tools to manage psychotic symptoms and that schizophrenia does not have to define who a person is. Although there is no cure, people with this condition can still have a fulfilling life

At one point in our lives or another, we have all been to school, we have all been into the lunchroom, and we have all seen those few children that sit by themselves and don’t say anything, don’t look around, and don’t seem even the least bit interested. The greater parts of society looks at these odd children and then brushes them off and say to themselves “Oh they are just weird, I wouldn’t want to be their friend either.” But have you ever stopped and thought maybe its something deeper? Maybe these kids have a mental disorder that causes them to be that way. Maybe, just maybe, its not even their own choice but its forced upon them by abusive and neglectful parents that obliterate their children’s trust so far that they cant even

Throughout psychology today there are six different theoretical models that seek to explain and treat abnormal functioning or behavior. These different models have been a result of different ideas and beliefs over the course of history. As psychology began to grow so did the improvements in research techniques. As a result psychologists are able to explain a variety of disorders in terms of the six different theoretical models. In the movie A Beautiful Mind it follows the mathematician John Nash as he struggles with schizophrenia. It an attempt to explain John Nash’s disorder the six different theoretical models will be looked at, they include biological model, psychodynamic model, behavioral model, cognitive model, humanistic model,

           The patient M. is a 26 year old married female who was brought to the ER by her husband after increased anxiety and depression worsened after a “spiritual attack” that lasted for over four days.  While in the ER the patient admitted to hearing multiple distant male and female voices all around her head and outside of her head.  She states not being able to make out the message but interprets them to be negative in nature. She told the ER Doc she felt people were trying to harm her and that “people in her life have used things against her.”  She felt her extended family may have used witchcraft and “chakra dolls” to cast spells on her.  She is cognizant of the strangeness of her claims but believes them to be real

The avoidant behavior an individual uses creates a lack of a human relationship. The less a person develops a relationship with someone, the more alone they will be. Avoidant behaviors include most of the social anxiety characteristics such as, lack of eye contact, preferred aloneness, and inability to hold a conversation. Claire uses avoidant behaviors such as lack of eye contact and lack of ability to create a relationship with an individual, specifically her roommates. As demonstrated with Claire, she gets invited to social gathering but continues to decline. The more she declines the less her roommates are going to ask her to participate with them, thus the cycle of social

The two diagnosis I considered after my first session with Caleb were Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophreniform Disorder. Caleb clearly displayed deficits in both social communication and social interaction during our session. Caleb was so socially withdrawn, that his mother, Nina, was the person I communicated with throughout the entirety of our session. Caleb occasionally mumbled responses to some of the questions; his answers ranged from “yes”, “no” to “I don’t know”, although he mumbled thank you to one of my compliments, Caleb definitely displayed deficits in social-emotional reciprocity. Caleb also exhibited deficits in nonverbal communication, avoiding eye contact throughout our entire session, he even avoided eye contact with his