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Case Studies1 February 1963Self-induced Water IntoxicationCase Study of a Chronically Schizophrenic Patient with Physiological Evidence of Water Retention Due to Inappropriate Release of Antidiuretic HormoneJ. ALLAN HOBSON, M.D., JOSEPH T. ENGLISH, M.D.J. ALLAN HOBSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JOSEPH T. ENGLISH, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-58-2-324 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptReports of "self-induced" water intoxication (1-5) vary with experimental evidence of difficulty in producing the state in normal individuals (6). In view of the occurrence of abnormal water metabolism in some mentally ill patients (7, 8), it is of interest to note the high prevalence of pre-existing psychiatric disorder in patients with self-induced water intoxication (1-5, 9). Since predisposition to development of the syndrome has been shown to be associated with various other disease states (10-15), where is is attributable to well-known mechanisms, the operation of some such mechanism in the patients with mental disease who develop water intoxication should...
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