Delusion or obsession: Clinical dilemma

BACKGROUND: A 52-year old lady presented for admission with severe depression characterised by suicidal ideation and delusional belief. CASE PRESENTATION: Her treatment regime was reviewed and modified. The dilemma was whether she suffered from a psychotic depression with delusion or an obsessional...

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Autores principales: Gandhi, Priya, Gadit, Amin Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22838396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-384
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description BACKGROUND: A 52-year old lady presented for admission with severe depression characterised by suicidal ideation and delusional belief. CASE PRESENTATION: Her treatment regime was reviewed and modified. The dilemma was whether she suffered from a psychotic depression with delusion or an obsessional disorder. She responded well to change of antipsychotic medication. CONCLUSIONS: Her depression went in remission and her delusional belief decreased in intensity. She also gained reasonable insight into her problem. She is currently being followed up in the psychiatric outpatient clinic.
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spelling pubmed-34417762012-09-15 Delusion or obsession: Clinical dilemma Gandhi, Priya Gadit, Amin Muhammad BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: A 52-year old lady presented for admission with severe depression characterised by suicidal ideation and delusional belief. CASE PRESENTATION: Her treatment regime was reviewed and modified. The dilemma was whether she suffered from a psychotic depression with delusion or an obsessional disorder. She responded well to change of antipsychotic medication. CONCLUSIONS: Her depression went in remission and her delusional belief decreased in intensity. She also gained reasonable insight into her problem. She is currently being followed up in the psychiatric outpatient clinic. BioMed Central 2012-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3441776/ /pubmed/22838396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-384 Text en Copyright ©2012 Gandhi and Muhammad Gadit; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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