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Case 11 - The young woman whose doctors could not decide whether she 117 has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or both

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2021

Stephen M. Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Patient Intake

• 26-year-old female arrives with both her parents

• Chief complaint: “I’m here because of my parents; I’m completely normal and I do not need medications”

• The patient has a four-year history of psychotic illness; and according to her parents has had a progressive downhill course following the onset of her illness

• She has delusions and hallucinations, which seem not to be treatable in a robust way with usual doses of antipsychotics

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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