BIOC34H3 Study Guide - Personality Disorder, Catatonia
3 Apr 2014
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Justification: it is evident that jamie is suffering from paranoid schizophriena. To meet the criteria, continuous signs of disturbance should persist for at least 6 months. Jamie"s case, his behavior shift was noted by his parents 8 months ago. In addition, two or more symptoms must be present, with each present for a significant portion of time during a 1 month period. The symptoms present in jamie include delusions, where jamie believes his professor is controlling his thoughts. Jamie is convinced that his professor broke into his apartment at night, removed his brain, and put a new brain inside that had all these different thoughts and ideas. Jamie complained about seeing all the colours of the spectrum in everything that was white. He also experiences social and occupational dysfunction as it is reported that jamie had dropped out of school a couple days ago and that he wasn"t getting along with anyone in his dorm room.
