Question

For each of the following case studies, play the role of a clinician and make the most accurate diagnosis possible from the given information.

7. Sarah has an unrealistic fear of shopping in crowded stores and walking through crowded streets. She has begun to spend more and more time home alone in order to avoid the panicky feeling she gets when she goes out in public.

8. Emmit, who has just suffered a serious knee injury, cannot undergo an MRI because he has an irrational fear of narrow, enclosed places that he developed after he got stuck in a well when he was a kid.

9. Lately, Jon has been getting into physical fights and recently got arrested for trying to steal a car. When his mom went to bail him out of jail, she told police officers that she doesn’t know what to do with her son, as he lacks remorse for his behavior. She also revealed that this has been going on for a long time – when he was a kid, he would even throw rocks at the stray cats in the neighborhood.

10. Sam's friends are starting to worry about him. Normally energetic and fun-loving, Sam has become withdrawn and sullen. He has lost weight, is constantly tired, and hasn't been showing up to lacrosse practice or to his fraternity meetings. In his conversations with others, he expresses feelings of doubt and unworthiness, and seems to be showing some risk factors for suicide.

11. What are some risk factors for suicide? Name at least three. What would you do if Sam (the case above) was your friend and you were worried he might be thinking about suicide? Answer not as a clinician, but as a caring friend for this question.

Answer 1

7. Sarah has an unrealistic fear of shopping in crowded stores and walking through crowded streets. She has begun to spend more and more time home alone in order to avoid the panicky feeling she gets when she goes out in public.

Ans. Sarah having Agoraphobia, Symptoms - As in the above case Sarah having an unrealistic fear of shopping, spend more time at a home, fear in the public place. These are symptoms of agoraphobia, it is more common than other phobias. ( you just not mention the duration in the case study).

8. Emmit, who has just suffered a serious knee injury, cannot undergo an MRI because he has an irrational fear of narrow, enclosed places that he developed after he got stuck in a well when he was a kid.

Ans. Emmit having claustrophobia. Symptoms - As in the above case Emmit having an irrational fear of narrow, enclosed places ( like MRI, small car, etc), and history of fear which develop that kid of symptoms, ( you just not mention the duration in the case study).

9. Lately, Jon has been getting into physical fights and recently got arrested for trying to steal a car. When his mom went to bail him out of jail, she told police officers that she doesn’t know what to do with her son, as he lacks remorse for his behavior. She also revealed that this has been going on for a long time – when he was a kid, he would even throw rocks at the stray cats in the neighborhood.

Ans. Jon having probably Conduct Disorder, Symptoms - As in the above case Jon having physical fights, (Aggressive behavior), steal a car (Deceitful behavior), he lacks remorse for his behavior, (Violation of rules and Destructive behavior these symptoms are not showing in the case study that's why I'm using" probably")

Two or disorder related to these symptoms but partial like a "physical fight" (Oppositional Defiant Disorder ), and for "steal a car "related to (Kleptomania)

10. Sam's friends are starting to worry about him. Normally energetic and fun-loving, Sam has become withdrawn and sullen. He has lost weight, is constantly tired, and hasn't been showing up to lacrosse practice or to his fraternity meetings. In his conversations with others, he expresses feelings of doubt and unworthiness and seems to be showing some risk factors for suicide.

Ans Sam,s having depression, Symptoms are a worry, withdrawn, lost weight, tired, unworthiness, and factors for suicides. all these symptoms indicate to depression ( and severity of the disorder is dependent on the duration of symptoms to now from start.)

11. What are some risk factors for suicide? Name at least three. What would you do if Sam (the case above) was your friend and you were worried he might be thinking about suicide? Answer not as a clinician, but as a caring friend for this question.

Ans Risk factors for suicide are many in which people feel that they are unworthy, loneliness, mentally unstable, etc

Some factors of suicide are :

• Ill-usage and abuse of alcohol and other substance  
• Social isolation and quarantine
• Mental disorders particularly depression and mood disorders, etc

If Sam were my friend I take him to the psychologist or psychiatrist and take care of him as the way psychologists said.

Thank you for asking such a nice question.