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Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia
This case report describes a 30-year-old mother of four with a 6-year history of obvious paranoia and psychosis from a poor rural farming community in India. Her symptoms and social functioning deteriorated over time, but the family did not seek medical care until she killed her 3-month-old daughter...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4764006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26977129 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.215058 |
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author | SAHA, Rahul SINGH, Shubh Mohan NISCHAL, Anil |
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description | This case report describes a 30-year-old mother of four with a 6-year history of obvious paranoia and psychosis from a poor rural farming community in India. Her symptoms and social functioning deteriorated over time, but the family did not seek medical care until she killed her 3-month-old daughter while under the influence of command hallucinations. Subsequent treatment with antipsychotic medication resulted in control of her psychotic symptoms and greatly improved psychosocial functioning. This case is an example of one of the many negative consequences of a community’s failure to recognize and treat mental illnesses. The patient had severe symptoms that were obvious to all for 6 years prior to the infanticide, but the family’s lack of basic knowledge about mental illness, the lack of locally available mental health care, and the relatively high cost of care prevented family members from obtaining the treatment that almost certainly would have prevented the tragic death of her infant. Changing these three factors in poor rural communities of low- and middle-income countries is the challenge we must work together to address. Infanticide secondary to untreated mental illness is a glaring reminder of how urgent this task is. |
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spelling | pubmed-47640062016-03-14 Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia SAHA, Rahul SINGH, Shubh Mohan NISCHAL, Anil Shanghai Arch Psychiatry Case Report This case report describes a 30-year-old mother of four with a 6-year history of obvious paranoia and psychosis from a poor rural farming community in India. Her symptoms and social functioning deteriorated over time, but the family did not seek medical care until she killed her 3-month-old daughter while under the influence of command hallucinations. Subsequent treatment with antipsychotic medication resulted in control of her psychotic symptoms and greatly improved psychosocial functioning. This case is an example of one of the many negative consequences of a community’s failure to recognize and treat mental illnesses. The patient had severe symptoms that were obvious to all for 6 years prior to the infanticide, but the family’s lack of basic knowledge about mental illness, the lack of locally available mental health care, and the relatively high cost of care prevented family members from obtaining the treatment that almost certainly would have prevented the tragic death of her infant. Changing these three factors in poor rural communities of low- and middle-income countries is the challenge we must work together to address. Infanticide secondary to untreated mental illness is a glaring reminder of how urgent this task is. Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing 2015-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4764006/ /pubmed/26977129 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.215058 Text en Copyright © 2015 by Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Case Report SAHA, Rahul SINGH, Shubh Mohan NISCHAL, Anil Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia |
title | Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia |
title_full | Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia |
title_fullStr | Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia |
title_full_unstemmed | Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia |
title_short | Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia |
title_sort | infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4764006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26977129 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.215058 |
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