Mr. Simpson is a 44-year-old, single, unemployed, white man brought…

Question Answered step-by-step Mr. Simpson is a 44-year-old, single, unemployed, white man brought… Mr. Simpson is a 44-year-old, single, unemployed, white man brought to the emergency room by the police for striking an elderly woman in his apartment building. His chief complaint is, “That damn bitch. She and the rest of them deserved more than that for what they put me though.”The patient has been continuously ill since age 22. During his first year of law school, he gradually became more and more convinced that his classmates were making fun of him. He noticed that they would snort and sneeze whenever he entered the classroom. When a girl he was dating broke off the relationship with him, he believed that she had been “replaced” by a look-alike. He called the police and asked for their help to solve the “kidnapping.” His academic performance in school declined dramatically, and he was asked to leave and seek psychiatric care.Mr. Simpson got a job as an investment counselor at a bank, which he held for 7 months. However, he was getting an increasing number of distracting “signals” from co-workers, and he became more and more suspicious and withdrawn. It was at this time that he first reported hearing voices. He was eventually fired, and soon thereafter was hospitalized for the first time, at age 24. He has not worked since.Mr. Simpson has been hospitalized 12 times, the longest stay being 8 months. However, in the last 5 years he has been hospitalized only once, for 3 weeks. During the hospitalizations he has received various antipsychotic drugs. Although outpatient medication has been prescribed, he usually stops taking it shortly after leaving the hospital. Aside form twice-yearly lunch meetings with his uncle and his contacts with mental health workers, he is totally isolated socially. He lives on his own and manages his own financial affairs, including a modest inheritance. He read the Wall Street Journal daily. He cooks and cleans for himself.Mr. Simpson maintains that his apartment is the center of a large communication system that involves all the major television networks, his neighbors, and apparently hundreds of “actors” in his neighborhood. There are secret cameras in his apartment that carefully monitor all his activities. When he is watching TV, many of his minor actions (e.g., going to the bathroom) are soon directly commented on by the announcer. Whenever he goes outside, the “actors” have all been warned to keep him under surveillance. Everyone on the street watches him. His neighbors operate two different “machines”; one is responsible for all of his voices, except the “joker.” He is not certain who controls this voice, which “visits” him only occasionally and is very funny. The other voices, which he hears many times each day, are generated by this machine, which he sometimes thinks is directly run by the neighbor whom he attacked. For example, when he is going over his investments, these “harassing” voices constantly tell him which stocks to buy. The other machines he calls “the dream machine.” This machine puts erotic dreams into his head, usually of “black women.”Mr. Simpson describes other unusual experiences. For example, he recently went to a shoe store 30 miles from this house in the hope of getting some shoes that wouldn’t be “altered.” However, he soon found out that, like the rest of the shoes he buys, special nails had been put into the bottom of the shoes to annoy him. He was amazed that his decision concerning which shoe store to go to must have been known to his “harassers” before he himself knew it, so that they had time to get the altered shoes made up especially for him. He realized that great effort and “millions of dollars” are involved in keeping him under surveillance. He sometimes thinks this is all part of a large experiment to discover the secret of his “superior intelligence.”At the interview, Mr. Simpson is well-groomed and his speech is coherent and goal-directed. His affect is, at most, only mildly blunted. He was initially very angry at being brought in by the police. After several psychotic symptoms, he was transferred to a long-stay facility with a plan to arrange a structured living situation for him.Give a short synopsis of your case study. Just give the overall description of the case (the main points), not a step-by-step recounting of the case. Define the “4 D’s” of abnormality discussed in class. Use your case to give specific examples of each area. You should have approximately 2-3 examples for each “D.”Discuss which disorder you think the individual in your case should be diagnosed with. (Hint: Each case fits the criteria for only one disorder, and it will be a disorder that was discussed in class. There will NOT be any cases that can be diagnosed with a personality disorder.) Please list the specific criteria from the DSM-5 that describes your individual’s disorder.Do some research. Describe what the most common/currently used treatments are for your individual’s identified disorder (medication, type of therapy, etc.) You will need a minimum of 2 sources for this section. Your sources can be: scholarly articles, your textbook, or non-fiction books. NO unreliable internet resources such as Wikipedia please! Find one example of a celebrity or relatively well know person with the same disorder as the individual in your case study. Describe how this individual has dealt with his or her disorder. He or she could have dealt with the disorder in a positive way (using medication and therapy, maybe becoming a spokesperson for awareness about the disorder) or in a negative way (destructive behaviors such as using drugs and/or alcohol to cope with symptoms). APADSM-5 http://repository.poltekkes-kaltim.ac.id/657/1/Diagnostic%20and%20statistical%20manual%20of%20mental%20disorders%20_%20DSM-5%20%28%20PDFDrive.com%20%29.pdf Social Science Psychology PSYCH 1106 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)