A Kyojo's Delirium: Insights into the Inner Mind of a Young Asian Female Patient

A young Asian female in her early twenties suffered selective mutism, emotional lability, and delusions during a period of personal crisis. The patient experienced brief intermittent periods of clarity during her psychosis of unknown origin, and wrote “Please save me” on a piece of paper during her...

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Autor principal: Curtis-Shanley, Iain
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31886098
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6376
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description A young Asian female in her early twenties suffered selective mutism, emotional lability, and delusions during a period of personal crisis. The patient experienced brief intermittent periods of clarity during her psychosis of unknown origin, and wrote “Please save me” on a piece of paper during her first meeting with the author of this report. Her confabulations and delusions are analyzed, along with the family and social circumstances that prevented her from receiving adequate treatment.
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spelling pubmed-69139702019-12-29 A Kyojo's Delirium: Insights into the Inner Mind of a Young Asian Female Patient Curtis-Shanley, Iain Cureus Psychology A young Asian female in her early twenties suffered selective mutism, emotional lability, and delusions during a period of personal crisis. The patient experienced brief intermittent periods of clarity during her psychosis of unknown origin, and wrote “Please save me” on a piece of paper during her first meeting with the author of this report. Her confabulations and delusions are analyzed, along with the family and social circumstances that prevented her from receiving adequate treatment. Cureus 2019-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6913970/ /pubmed/31886098 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6376 Text en Copyright © 2019, Curtis-Shanley et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913970/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6376
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