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Diagnostic Errors/prevention & control , Mental Health , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder , Age of Onset , Disease Management , Genetic Predisposition to Disease , Global Health , Humans , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/diagnosis , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/epidemiology , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/etiology , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/therapy , Prevalence , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Sex FactorsSubject(s)
Mental Disorders/therapy , Phototherapy/methods , Circadian Rhythm , Female , Humans , Male , Pakistan , Seasonal Affective Disorder/therapy , SeasonsSubject(s)
First Aid , Mental Disorders , Mental Health , Community Health Services , Humans , Mental Disorders/therapy , PakistanSubject(s)
Sex Preselection , Female , Humans , Male , Pakistan , Practice Patterns, Physicians' , ReligionSubject(s)
Gender Identity , Transsexualism/psychology , Female , Humans , Medicine , Stress, PsychologicalSubject(s)
Malpractice , Medicine , Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration , PakistanSubject(s)
Mental Health , Smoking , Humans , Pakistan , Smoking/adverse effects , Smoking/psychologySubject(s)
Ill-Housed Persons/psychology , Mental Disorders/psychology , Mental Health , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Pakistan , United NationsSubject(s)
Bullying/psychology , Domestic Violence/psychology , Mental Disorders/psychology , Mental Health , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Cannabis , Phytotherapy , Canada , Humans , Legislation, Drug , Marijuana Abuse , Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic , United StatesABSTRACT
This report describes a 26-year-old man who was so emotionally attached to his mother that the mere thought of separating from her caused immense anxiety. The death of his mother after a brief illness resulted in prolonged bereavement. However, the patient started seeing and talking to his mother after her death, which led to huge improvement in his mood and social functioning. His wife brought him in for consultation but no obvious psychopathology was detected. This gave rise to the dilemma of whether to consider this a real psychopathology and treat it, or to disregard this reported hallucination. No active treatment is being given to this patient at the moment.
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Bereavement , Hallucinations/etiology , Mother-Child Relations , Parapsychology , Adult , Hallucinations/psychology , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
This is a case of a 22-year-old male who was born with a port-wine stain on right side of his face, developed seizures at the age of 2, was not able to complete formal education in a school. MRI revealed intracranial calcification and left-sided brain atrophy. He had diagnosis of Sturge-Weber syndrome. Since the time of adolescence, he developed psychiatric problems and hence was treated with psychotropic medications. This case remains under the domain of psychiatry as well as neurology and calls for joint management. A number of presentations with Sturge-Weber syndrome have been reported in the literature that poses problems in terms of appropriate medical management. A classical syndrome like this invites serious attention of both psychiatrists and neurologists to devise appropriate drug treatment with a view of interactions, side effects, complications and prognosis.
