Method and Process
Case Example
In 2012, a voluntary organization brought four persons to a
psychiatric hospital for treatment. An interesting as well as
distressing fact was that those four of them were from a
single family. Initial appearance of the persons was really
pathetic, because, all of them were starving for many days
and all of them looked tired and lethargic. Before initiating
psychiatric assessment and interventions, all of them were
admitted in Intensive Care Unit for emergency interventions.
Psychiatric treatment team assessed and diagnosed
them with Chronic Schizophrenia. Initially eldest son
started showing psychiatric symptoms in the form of
muttering and smiling to self, withdrawn behaviours and
suspiciousness. Later mother developed almost similar
kind of symptoms. Then two daughters also had similar
symptoms. All of them had suspiciousness and their social
interaction significantly got reduced. They became hostile
to the neighbours and they gave least attention to the
family. Self-care of these persons deteriorated, they wore
shabby dresses and never took bath properly. After the
onset of the illness, two of them stopped going for job
which reduced the income of the family. The youngest
brother was unable to meet all the demands of the family
members. Subsequently the family started starving. Once
the treatment was initiated, the multi-disciplinary treatment
team, decided to explore further about the case