Psychic Condition Research Articles

The Black (W)hole of Dysphoria

This essay returns to Evelynn Hammonds’s field-changing essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” with a focus on the labor of knowledge production under fraught institutional conditions, characterized in this essay as languaging. The simultaneous desire for and impossibility of accurate language to describe racialized, gendered, and sexual subjectivity drive Hammonds’s essay as well as a number of other key texts in Black feminist sexuality studies. This essay (re)introduces the diagnostic category of dysphoria to speak to this paradox: here, dysphoria describes the affective and psychic condition of institutional illegibility and fungibility for racialized and gendered people. Using the analytic of dysphoria to characterize and connect the political economy of Black feminist knowledge production and the life narrative of A. Dionne Stallworth, a Black trans woman activist, this essay directs urgent attention to the simultaneously material, spiritual, psychic, and affective dimensions of self-, knowledge-, and world-making.

THERAPEUTIC APPROACH IN COEXISTENCE OF AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER AND PSYCHOTIC STRUCTURE IN ITS EARLY MANIFESTATIONS: A CASE REPORT

Introduction: The first manifestations of a psychotic structure, generally in adolescence or early adulthood, are an important milestone in an individual's life. But, considering the concomitant signs and symptoms of an avoidant personality disorder can appear since childhood, there is a demand for more targeted and delicate attention from the team of healthcare professionals. Case summary: During the monitoring of the patient, a series of clinical signs and symptoms appeared that met the criteria of two simultaneous psychic conditions, one of them structural and the other personality related. With the aforementioned diagnoses, specific new pharmacological treatment tests were carried out, carrying positive effects and improving the patient's quality of life (introduction of antipsychotics instead of antidepressants as the pivot of therapy). Discussion: the onset of a psychotic condition in the trema phase associated with pre-existing avoidant/avoidant personality disorder demands balanced management between both conditions, using the strategies offered by both pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies. Conclusion: in order to adopt an appropriate treatment and management of the case, due to the complexity of diagnostic simultaneity, constant attention is required from the assistant team, so that continuous reassessments of hypotheses are made and, therefore, adjustments whenever necessary.

Narcissistic vulnerability and binge eating in adolescence: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation and dissociative experiences

IntroductionAlthough evidence suggests a link between vulnerable narcissism and binge eating (BE), an important question remains whether the narcissistic vulnerability has a direct or indirect effect on BE, and which variables may be involved in such associations. The present study aims to explore a mediational trajectory between vulnerable narcissism and BE through emotion dysregulation and dissociation. MethodsParticipants were 253 (Mage = 15.63, SD = 1.74; range=12–18 years; F = 172, 68%) Italian students screened by self-report measures assessing narcissism, emotion dysregulation, dissociative states, and BE. ResultsVulnerable narcissism showed an indirect effect on BE with emotion dysregulation and dissociation serving as significant mediators in such a relationship (χ2(4) = 6.623; RMSEA = 0.05; SRMR = 0.023; CFI = 0.99; TLI = 0.95), explaining 51 % of the variance in BE. LimitationsLimitations concerned the cross-sectional and self-report nature of the study. Also, the study only included adolescent school students. DiscussionsFindings suggest that a psychic fragility of the Ego (vulnerable narcissism) likely has an indirect effect on BE, through emotion dysregulation and dissociative states. BE seems to represent an acting-out occurring in a specific psychic condition defined by feelings of disconnectedness and lack of control. Potential implications for theory, research, prevention and treatment are discussed.

Panchakarma and Satvavajaya chikitsa in the management of Pittodara caused by fast food addiction: A case report

Fast food is often consumed not as a requirement for hunger but to continuously satiate the taste buds with appealing flavors, which creates an addictive behavior. This addiction represents “Asatmendriyartha samyoga” (~improper use of sensory organs) of Rasanendriya (~sensory faculty of tongue). Toxins present in fast food can act as Dushivisha (~artificial poison) and Garavisha (~combination of non-poisonous substances) leading to Udara roga (~diseases of the abdomen). The present case followed a typical presentation of Pittodara (~Udara roga due to Pitta dosha) in a 19-year-old female, who was habituated to fast-food consumption. The patient had developed pain in the abdomen, and yellowish discoloration of eyes, urine, and stools for two weeks. Fever was the first symptom to develop followed by vomiting, causing severe weakness. The contemporary diagnosis had suspected the case to be an acute liver failure, requiring a liver transplantation. Based on Nidana (~etiology), Samprapti (~pathogenesis), and Lakshanas (~symptoms), the case was diagnosed as Pittodara. Considering the Vaya (~age), Bala (~physical endurance), Agni (~digestive/metabolic factors), and Satva (~psychic condition) of the patient, Dosha nirharana chikitsa (~evacuation of accumulated toxins), and Shothahara chikitsa (~reduction of inflammation and swelling) were planned through Nitya virechana (~therapeutic purgation on daily basis) by Gandharva hastadi eranda taila, Nasya (~medication through nasal route) with Gudanagara, Parisheka (~therapeutic streaming) with Dashamoola kwatha and Udaralepa (~application of medicated paste over abdomen). The patient was provided counseling along with specific advice on a planned diet and daily routine. A combination of Yukti vyapashraya (~logic-based treatment) and Satvavajaya chikitsa (~subjugation of mind/counsel) resulted in the reduction in yellowish discoloration of eyes, bilirubin levels, abdominal girth, pedal edema, and pain per abdomen. This case depicts the hazards of fast-food addiction among the young population, the utility of Panchakarma chikitsa in treating liver disorders, and the need for social policies to control the growth of fast-food outlets in India.

Exploring the ‘Everyday’ in Colin Wilson’s The Black Room and The Personality Surgeon: A Phenomenological Perspective

The English existentialist writer Colin Wilson explores different dimensions of human consciousness in his fictional works to understand the nature of consciousness. Wilson professes the doctrine of “affirmation” and contends that beneath the surface of everyday triviality, which generates pessimistic nihilism and ennui, there is an ever-refreshing reality to which every individual must get access so as to bring value and purpose to life. Hebelieves that this triviality is a result of the narrowness of consciousness. In this state, we take life for granted, and instead of living, we drift. This state resembles how Husserl describes consciousness in its ‘natural attitude’ —a state which is characterised by inattention and unreflectiveness. In this state, one fails to comprehend the experience at hand, thereby losing its meaning and essence. The recognition of this naïve attitude is one of the basic tenets of Wilson’s philosophy. Both Husserl and Wilson show a deep concern with the perception and the perceiver and their fate in all modes of consciousness, which are inextricably linked to human will and imagination and crucial to the evolution of consciousness. Wilson, like Husserl, rose against cultural pessimism engendered by earlier philosophies and envisaged phenomenology as a potent tool to overcome this failure and crisis. Both believe in the spiritual power of phenomenology, which provides new insights into human subjectivity and its sense of bestowing achievements. Wilson’s phenomenological pursuit is anendeavour to solve the existential meaninglessness of life. With a focus on the question of what makes up human values, Wilson’s new existentialism entails a phenomenological analysis of consciousness. His phenomenology of life devaluation is the most relevant area of study because moods of insight and optimism are less accessible than moods of everyday consciousness. Like Husserlian phenomenology, Wilson’s new existentialism lays bare the different layers of human consciousness. In his The New Existentialism,he avers that the ‘new existentialist’ “accepts man’s experience of his inner freedom as basic and irreducible” and ‘the new existentialism’ concentrates the full battery of phenomenological analysis upon the everyday sense of contingency ... it uncovers the complexities and safety devices in which freedom dissipates itself” (180). And therein lies the first step towards understanding the nature of consciousness. Husserlian phenomenology, with its implicit existentialist concerns, too begins with this recognition of the prejudiced consciousness which flattened under the triviality of everyday life characterises our ‘natural attitude’. Both Wilson and Husserl contend that ‘normal’ consciousness is partial, and it is not possible to make any sense of life from this partial mode of being. There is only a dull acceptance of how things apparently seem to us from our ‘natural standpoint’. Wilson conveys this state as the problem of ‘Robot’, which engenders an empty, meaningless and mechanical life where we act with passive intentionality and where the possibility of moving to other modes of being is reduced and thus limited.Wilson gives us a fresh and clear picture of man’s position in what Husserl calls the ‘natural standpoint’ or what he himself terms the ‘fallacy of insignificance’ —man’s inability to find meaning or significance in life. It is the everyday state of consciousness which Wilson calls the ‘Robot.’ Gnostics would call this Robot ‘Duality’, Gurdjieff calls it ‘sleep’, and Nietzsche labels it ‘Mechanical Intentions’. Heidegger would call such an existence ‘inauthentic’. It is Blake’s ‘Spectre’ —a stronghold of one’s own identity, personality, habits, etc. It is the concept of man as “an empty consciousness that passively receives data from the outside world” (Tredell Web). Robot is a human psychic condition which has become more complicated in modern culture. According to Wilson, “the Robot” is how our consciousness operates on ‘auto-pilot’, narrowing our perception so as to enable us to handle everyday life and least concerned about the need to get beyond it. He believed that “the Robot” controlled the part of our brains that, in our modern culture, has become over-used and over-developed.

HUBUNGAN TINGKAT STRES DENGAN KESIAPAN DIRI SISWA SAAT KEMBALI BERSEKOLAH PASCA DARING PANDEMI COVID-19 DI SMA SWASTA YAPIM SIBIRU-BIRU TAHUN 2022

Officially informed that school will be held face-to-face students complain of stress about this, to achieve a level of readiness, physical and psychic conditions are needed that support each other's readiness in the learning process. To: Identify stress levels, and self-readiness in students when returning to school, Analyze the relationship between stress levels and students' self-readiness when returning to school post-online Types This study is an observational analytic with a go-sectional approach. This has a look at what was used to find the relationship between impartial variables and based variables. This research method can be done by using surveys, questionnaires, and interviews of strain tiers with students' self-readiness at mild pressure ranges of 31 people (forty three.7%), mild as many as 21 human beings (29.6%), weight as many as 15 humans (21.1%), and really heavy 4 human beings (5.6%) with a p-fee of zero.003 (.zero.1/2) so that Ha is time-honored this means that there is a stress relationship with students' self-readiness whilst returning to high school after the Covid-19 pandemic at Yapim Sibiru-biru private excessive college in 2022 There is a relationship between stress levels and students' self-readiness when they return to school after the COVID-19 pandemic at Yapim Sibiru-biru Private High School in 2022. Severe and moderate stress levels can trigger a person's self-readiness, especially in students changing the teaching and learning process which was previously online and then offline with strict health protocol rules at school, as well as from themselves and the environment.

ANALISIS KESIAPAN DAN MINAT MAHASISWA DALAM PROGRAM MERDEKA BELAJAR KAMPUS MERDEKA: STUDI KASUS MAHASISWA JPTK FKIP UNS ANGKATAN 2020

<p class="abstrak">It is necessary to increase soft skills and hard skills so that university graduates are ready to work and face challenges in the world of work. Competencies are needed that are integrated with other majors so that university graduates can adapt to the world of work. So that students must be prepared to have readiness and interest in learning in the era of global competition. The Independent Learning Campus Merdeka Program (Program Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka atua MBKM) is expected to be able to answer this challenge. The method used in this research is descriptive statistics. With the aim of testing the hypothesis that there is readiness, interest, and major indicators that affect the readiness and interest of JPTK FKIP UNS students batch 2020 in carrying out the Independent Learning Campus Merdeka program. The conclusion of this study is that there is readiness of JPTK FKIP UNS students batch 2020 in the MBKM program, there is interest from JPTK FKIP UNS students batch 2020 in the MBKM program, there are large indicator values that affect the readiness and interest of JPTK FKIP UNS students batch 2020 in implementing the MBKM program, namely indicators Emotions of Pleasure and Psychic Conditions Affective Attitudes.</p>

MELHORIA DA CAPACIDADE EXPLOSIVA CORPORAL EM PATINADORAS DE VELOCIDADE EM PISTA CURTA

ABSTRACT Introduction The peculiar characteristics of short track speed skating should be integrated into the psychology of competitions; it is considered that elite athletes engaged in this particular sport should have a healthy psychic condition. Objective Investigate the explosive power of female speed skaters in short track speed skating. Methods 10 key athletes from the national short track speed skating team were selected, and explosive power was tested by T-test, hexagonal test, and pro sensitivity test. Data analysis was performed using an independent sample t-test, differences in the results of related test indicators between groups were analyzed, and repeated measures analysis of variance was used. Results During the explosive kick phase, knee extension speed increased linearly from 210°/S to 600°/S, and hip extension speed increased linearly from 200°/S to 400°/S. Conclusion The development of muscle group strength and explosive power during training often shows differences in the degree of contraction, which is related to the arrangement of training methods. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.

A REVIEW ON SARA PARIKSHA OF AYURVEDA: AN IMPORTANT DETERMINANT TOOL FOR FUTURE PERSPECTIVE

The ancient system of Indian medicine (Ayurveda) has mentioned various physiological concepts; one of them is dhatu sarata. Acharya Charaka has described dashvidha aatur parikshya vishaya (ten important aspects for examination) for vaidya to enhance their knowledge. Dashvidha aatur pariksha bhava (ten-fold examination of patients) are physical constitution (prakruti), morbidity (vikruti), excellence of dushya or tissue elements (sara), compactness or tissues or organs (samhanana), measurement of body constituents (pramana), homologation (saatmya) psychic condition (satwa), power of intake and digestion of food (aaharshakti), power of performing exercise (vyayam shakti) and age (vayah) for bala pramaan. All nine except vikruti pariksha are used to assess bala of rogi and vikruti pariksha to access the bala of dosh. Sara pariksha is one component of dashvidha aatur pariksha, specifically used to examine the strength of an individual or dhatu. As Charaka stated, “Bala maan vishesh gyanartham”, means for assessment of bala. In this review article, we attempted to correlate the various dhatu sarata with modern physiological entities and to determine possible methods to assess dhatu sarata and its application by compiling the previous work done by multiple researchers.

SOFRIMENTO: uma contribuição para o entendimento da ideação suicida a partir da fenomenologia da vida de Michel Henry

The general objective of this work was to understand human suffering from the phenomenology of Michel Henry's life and to correlate it with suicide to understand the phenomena present in individuals who have suicidal ideation. The research process presented was classified as a bibliographic review, with a qualitative and descriptive approach, in the phenomenological perspective, basing its discussions on authors who approach this theme. This study becomes relevant due to the high number of individuals with suicidal ideation, in addition to the scarce bibliography on the subject between the two authors. The present study makes an important contribution to the understanding of suicide from the conception of suffering from Husserl and Michel Henry. Therefore, this study is relevant because, among many hardships of the historical, social and psychic condition of the individual itself. Suicide is a reality that refers to public and mental health, so it is of great importance to seek studies aimed at appropriate ways related to understanding the phenomena present in individuals who have suicidal ideation.

Simultaneous presentation of trichotillomania and neurotic excoriation in a schizophrenic patient: case report

The present report aims to describe the case of a patient with excoriation disorder and trichotillomania comorbid with schizophrenia. This is a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia more than 30 years ago and who had a stabilized psychic condition. In one of his periodic evaluations, he began to demonstrate compulsive acts of picking at the skin and from then onwards, lesions appeared on the face, upper limbs and scalp with progressive involvement of other regions. The approach of these mental disorders represented a challenge, because despite a growing number of studies, clinical and therapeutic questions remain open.

Unweepable Wounds Unwept

Abstract This essay analyzes Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) as a book of lamentations for its bereaved black subject’s mother loss, social death, and prematurely ended girlhood. More specifically, it examines a daughter’s devastation over her natal alienation, violent domination, and general degradation within a hurtful herstory in which white motherhood and white mistresshood are sisters in subjugation. The author literarily autopsies Nig’s raciogenesis as black, her sociopolitical genealogy as enslaved, and her etiology as melancholic. This essay conceptualizes the domestic maternal passage as her transfer from white mother to mistress, a passage that sets in motion her exile from home and entrance into the hell of slavery. This passage is procreative of her social death and an open wound in her memory of mother loss and her mother hunger. Moreover, she is plagued by racial melancholia insofar as she bewails being governed as black and covets whiteness. Nig tends to her inner wounds by mourning, but social death chokes off her measures to work through her losses. This affective asphyxiation illustrates that her psychic condition arises not from an inner inability to digest loss but from external impediments that forcibly prescribe her inconsolability. This plight delineates Nig as a figure of unweepable wounds unwept in a grievous herstory.

Ignorance in Plato’s Protagoras

Abstract Ignorance is commonly assumed to be a lack of knowledge in Plato’s Socratic dialogues. I challenge that assumption. In the Protagoras, ignorance is conceived to be a substantive, structural psychic flaw—the soul’s domination by inferior elements that are by nature fit to be ruled. Ignorant people are characterized by both false beliefs about evaluative matters in specific situations and an enduring deception about their own psychic conditions. On my interpretation, akrasia, moral vices, and epistemic vices are products or forms of ignorance, and a person who lacks knowledge is not necessarily ignorant.

A Lovely Sleep: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The Cement Garden Through the Theoretical Lens of Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva

Ian McEwan is the writer of the most controversial texts of the contemporary British fiction. One of the outstanding examples of his literature of shock, McEwan’s The Cement Garden, is a challenging narrative in the sense that it depicts the disturbing experiences of a family, ranging from incest to death. The fact that these experiences are narrated through an adolescent boy’s point of view makes these even more controversial in the sense that the depiction of events through this narrator’s view is focalized. Through this focalization, the horrifying events experienced by children are narrated as if they were just ordinary experiences which creates a somehow disturbing effect on the reader. However this disturbance also leads the reader to think that the actions of these children and their relationship to their parents and each other also refer to an underlying symbolism pertaining to their psychic conditions. This article aims to reveal and interpret the novel focusing on this underlying symbolism through the lens of Lacan’s concepts of ‘lack’ and the Symbolic order and Kristeva’s concept of ‘semiotic chora’.

Exploring Psyche of the Gurkha Soldier in Koirala’s Soldier, Rai’s The Murderer and Bista’s The Andhikhola

Lahure, ‘Gurkha soldier’ has a unique image and personage in the World; people around the world characterise and praise the braveness and honesty of Gurkha soldiers. But no one describes and contemplates about the psyche and personality of the lahure outside the barracks and battlefields, and treat accordingly them. This research paper explored psyche, motives and mentality of lahures (“Gurkha soldiers”) in Koirala’s Soldier, Rai’s The Murderer and Bista’s The Anthi Khola. This paper exposed the pre-service, in-service and post-service conditions, thoughts and experiences of lahures, and unveils the psychological motives, intentions and personality of lahure in the stories selected. This research has exploited interpretative qualitative approach and utilised psychoanalysis theory to interpret the data from the stories; this theory exposed the mindset and mentality of a person like a lahure. Three stories of different writers are purposively selected to truly exhibit the psyche, persona and mind of lahures in the pre-service, in-service and post-service. The findings are that Koirala manifests the nature and mind sets of a lahure who is on leave and returns to the cantonment; the self of the soldier is ‘other’ to show people, and he also displays his own provocative character. Rai discloses the temperament and perception of ex-lahure in his village; circumstantial evidences and his subconscious forces him to slander and calumniate the accidental act. Likewise, Bista demonstrates the motivation, rationale and intention of lahure and village boys who wish to join army forces; their paramount intention is to pay off debts and earn for bread and butter as well as social status in the village. Rai also exemplifies how the beloveds are psychologically devastated by the lost lahure in wars. They divulged the psychic conditions, individuals’ unique thoughts and experiences of Gurkha soldiers to the particular problems outside the cantonments and battlefields. This research significantly unveils thoughts, provocation, psyche and motives of lahures to the (academic) publics who have heard and described the braveness and honesty of the Gurkha soldiers in the battle fields.

“I’d Have Divorced My Husband If Not for Korean Dramas” – Vietnamese Women’s Consumption of Television Romance and Melancholia

ABSTRACT Drawing on the Freudian concept of melancholia and David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s contemporary approach to the concept, this article discusses how Vietnamese married women consume romantic South Korean television dramas as a means to deal with unacknowledged and unresolved loss, or the psychic condition of melancholia. Through a case study of melancholia in a female research participant and a discussion of Vietnamese women’s marital lives, the article proposes two arguments. First, romantic consumption can be a private way for Vietnamese married women suffering from restricted freedom due to societal overemphasis on their familial duties to cope with melancholia. Second, the mass romantic culture, as a melancholic genre, allows married women to collectively mourn lost emotions such as the feeling of being young and being in love. The article makes a theoretical contribution by utilising Freud’s melancholia and Eng and Han’s contemporary approach to the concept for its empirical research. It also enriches an academic understanding of melancholia through its application of the concept to married women’s psychic lives within a contemporary Vietnamese context.

A STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR RESILIENCE

Education plays a very critical role in every society and it is part of our life. It acts as a social strategy which helps the person to live more happily individually or in society. Human beings cannot be able to live suitably without education. In the modern era of world, a student with good mental health can fully utilize his affective and cognitive potentialities. Mental health represents a psychic condition which is characterized by mental peace, harmony and self-control. Resilience is related to the positive psychology, which lay emphasis upon human strengthens and his successful adaption and modification even though risk. Resilience permits people to maintain a good mental health despite of difficulties. This study decided to assess the mental health level of college students in relation to their resilience. Descriptive method of research was used to conduct this study. The sample of 250 postgraduate college students selected on the random basis from Punjab. The Hopkins Symptom Checklist and Wagnild and Young ‘s scale was used to assess the mental health and resilience. After the collection data in a systematic way, results derived showed that most of the students possessed lower level of mental health and resilience. The mental health of male students was better than mental health of female college students. Male. The results of the study showed that there was no significant mean difference in mental health of rural and urban college students as well as high and low level of resilience. Also, the results of the study showed that there was no significant relationship between mental health and resilience of college students. Furthermore, the findings of the study show that resilience was not contributing as a significantly predictor for the mental health of students. Some suggestions for improving and enhancing mental health and resilience were also provided among students.

Development and evaluation of antipsychotic drugs for externally triggered transdermal therapeutic systems

Cariprazine is a recent antipsychotic drug with an atypical neuropharmacological profile. It is promptly absorbed from the GI tract and suddenly metabolized by liver. Cariprazine has 6 h of plasma elimination half life, 9% of oral and 83% of protein binding. Administration of cariprazine in transdermal dosage form would be a lot of fascinating to regulate the mood for extended period by achieving the plasma concentration well higher than the therapeutic levels. With psychiatrical patients, schedules of daily medication should be followed to avoid adverse reactions which are notably difficult. Therefore, delivery of such drugs by transdermal route can be done. Development and maintenance of low dose drugs therapy is desired, which will limit the consequences of significant adverse effect and direct the issues of helpless consistence in the patients. Ideal quantity of the psychotropic drug can be given by transdermal route with least adverse reactions to overcome the psychic conditions. This will result in improving the health care services for long term mental illness management. In present work, we have synthesized the novel electrically responsive graft co-polymers using natural polymers with polyacrylamide and utilized for the preparation of cariprazine containing electrically responsive transdermal therapeutic systems (ETTS).

Analisis Pengaruh Penggunaan Kata Anjay terhadap Kondisi Psikis Generasi-Z

<p><em>Abstract</em> – <strong>The word "anjay" is a multi-situation term, it can be used in a happy atmosphere to anger. The purpose of this study is to find out how Anjay's effect on the psychic condition of Z-generations. The study is a kind of quantitative study using a correlation approach survey method. Z-generations is a research population that is derived from south sulawesi, southeast sulawesi and Java. As many as 100 respondents followed the instruments in charge of questionnaires on Google form to measure whether or not there was an impact between Anjay and his psychic condition. . Based on the value of R<sup>2</sup> = 0.019, it was found that the influence of anjay’s word on the psychological condition of the Z-generation was 1.9%, the rest of the psychological condition was influenced by other causes. Based on the t-test where t<sub>count</sub> < t<sub>table</sub> which is 1.359 < 1.98447 and F-test where F<sub>count</sub> < F<sub>table</sub> which is 1.847 < 3.94 with a significance value of 0.177 > 0.05 indicates that anjay has no significant effect on psychic conditions. It can be argued that anjay's word was less influential in the psychic condition of Z-generations.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong> - <em>Anjay, psychological condition, z- generation </em><em> </em></p><p><strong><br /></strong></p>

Tentativas reincidentes de autoextermínio em paciente com múltiplos transtornos psiquiátricos: entraves a um bom diagnóstico

The aim was to report the care of a patient with possible psychiatric disorders and a history of suicide attempts, in addition to evaluating diagnostic and therapeutic methods that can be used. Thus, this is a descriptive, critical-reflective and qualitative study, of the experience report type, carried out in a philanthropic hospital in the city of Caratinga, in the State of Minas Gerais. Data were collected through anamnesis and medical records of a 39-year-old female patient with major depression and bipolar affective disorder, with a history of several attempts at self-extermination. In this sense, the importance of an adequate diagnosis was evidenced in order to improve the patient's quality of life, as well as to avoid failures that harm her psychic condition. In addition, it was identified as essential the follow-up of a professional in the area who can offer appropriate support for the multiple psychiatric disorders reported.