1. CARRIE
Carrie was a second year college student
when she first began having problems.
She would go days without sleeping. She
began having trouble concentrating in
school and stopped going to classes. She
started having sexual relationships with 4
different men and she spent all of the
money she had for the school year in
three months. When her parents
discovered the problems, they brought
her in for evaluation. Carrie did not feel
that anything was wrong. She felt that
she had just made several poor
decisions, like anyone her age. Her
parents felt things were not the same.
She had always been a thoughtful,
responsible person prior to the last
several months.
SUSIE
Susie is a 20-year-old sophomore at a small
Midwestern college. For the past five days
she has gone without any sleep whatsoever
and she has spent this time in a heightened
state of activity which she herself describes
as “out of control.” For the most part, her
behavior is characterized by strange and
grandiose ideas that often take on a mystical
or sexual tone. For example, she recently
proclaimed to a group of friends that she did
not menstruate because she was a “of a third
sex, a gender above the human sexes.” When
her friends questioned her on this, she
explained that she is a “superwoman” who
can avoid human sexuality and still give
birth. That is, she is a woman who does not
require sex to fulfill her place on earth.
Carrie exhibits a negative behaviours such as impulsive
decision making, stop attending classes and didn’t
concentrate in classes. However, the only behaviour
that link with bipolar disorder, and exhibited by patient,
is receiving less sleep and hyperactive behaviour, while
other symptoms wasn’t exhibit yet. Doctor insisted that
patient didn’t developed bipolar disorder yet, however
According to patient history, patient exhibits a behaviour of
mania-bipolar disorder, as she contain gladius level of self
esteem and hyperactive behaviour, which made her
received less sleep than usual. However there’s also
possibility of Schizophrenia, however patient didn’t exhibit
any other physical behaviour of Schizophrenia yet. Further