Case Study (Schizophrenia)
Case Study (Schizophrenia)
Benny is 52 years old and has been working as a driver for a postal company for the past 28 years. He had a very cheerful and normal childhood, with sufficient caring from parents. He loves his parent very much. Benny has been unmarried his entire life. He reports that he has always been "nervous with the girls and such" and avoids making any significant social overtures with women. He meets his sexual needs matter of fact by visiting a prostitute on a regular basis. Benny has recently begun insisting that he is suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. Although medical tests have proven negative, he insists that he can feel the organ rotting inside of him. This thought seems to have developed after he watched a television program on the side effects of alcoholism.
Besides that, Benny also started to ‘see’ things not from the world. For example, on one occasion, Benny was watering his plants when suddenly he yelled at the neighbour’s son, ordering him to duck and take cover for the attacks from Mars. He’d also warned the young man to shut the curtains before bed, to not be curious of any sound that he hears during the night. Another time was when Benny had started talking to ‘someone’ through a broken phone. When being asked, he would express that he is actually contacting the government in order to handle the issue of aliens’ invasion from Mars.
Moreover, what scared most of his neighbours nowadays would be his personality changed. Benny would often start of his day usually by greeting his neighbours early in the morning, but lately, he seems to ignore the fact that he knows them, and doesn’t even have the slightest idea of what had happened during the morning when asked by someone else at a later time.
Though many people thinks that either Benny is getting ill or he is actually going insane, but little do they know that actually Benny is going through the schizophrenia process. Schizophrenia, also known
Benny is 52 years old and has been working as a driver for a postal company for the past 28 years. He had a very cheerful and normal childhood, with sufficient caring from parents. He loves his parent very much. Benny has been unmarried his entire life. He reports that he has always been "nervous with the girls and such" and avoids making any significant social overtures with women. He meets his sexual needs matter of fact by visiting a prostitute on a regular basis. Benny has recently begun insisting that he is suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. Although medical tests have proven negative, he insists that he can feel the organ rotting inside of him. This thought seems to have developed after he watched a television program on the side effects of alcoholism.
Besides that, Benny also started to ‘see’ things not from the world. For example, on one occasion, Benny was watering his plants when suddenly he yelled at the neighbour’s son, ordering him to duck and take cover for the attacks from Mars. He’d also warned the young man to shut the curtains before bed, to not be curious of any sound that he hears during the night. Another time was when Benny had started talking to ‘someone’ through a broken phone. When being asked, he would express that he is actually contacting the government in order to handle the issue of aliens’ invasion from Mars.
Moreover, what scared most of his neighbours nowadays would be his personality changed. Benny would often start of his day usually by greeting his neighbours early in the morning, but lately, he seems to ignore the fact that he knows them, and doesn’t even have the slightest idea of what had happened during the morning when asked by someone else at a later time.
Though many people thinks that either Benny is getting ill or he is actually going insane, but little do they know that actually Benny is going through the schizophrenia process. Schizophrenia, also known
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