The case is interesting from a social and medical point of view and is an important moral story about patients with mental problems. April Durrell’s life took a turn when she was 21, fast forward Washington Post. She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in a catatonic state after being diagnosed with schizophrenia and psychosis. When many thought April would never get her life back, behold, 20 years later it was discovered that she had been misdiagnosed and was, after all, suffering from lupus.
before you become ill, April was an excellent student, who was studying accounting at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore at the time of a traumatic event. He was 21 years old when he started having hallucinations.
Diagnosed with the most severe form schizophrenia and psychosis, April entered a spiral where He stopped talking to others and started to develop erratic behaviour.
The young American woman has reached a point where she no longer recognizes family and friends and is unable to perform almost any task on her own. In addition, she did not allow anyone to have physical contact with her. became rigid.
a Catatonia It is a severe form of mental illness, in which people have little or no interaction with their environment, or they may behave in unexpected or unsafe ways. The disease can be treated with medication or other techniques.
Helped a doctor in a psychiatric hospital April
April was diagnosed 1995 And after five years He met the resident doctor at the psychiatric hospital, Sander Marks, This is for Washington Post, He said: “She is, to this day, the sickest patient I have ever seen.”
After nearly two decades Their lives intersect again. Marks, now director of Precision Psychiatry at Columbia University, and colleagues found that, Although April’s illness was clinically indistinguishable from schizophrenia, her too he had lupus, A treatable underlying autoimmune disease It was attacking his brain in the areas where schizophrenia and psychosis develop.
After months of treatment and More than two decades trapped in her mind, April has awakened.
In 2020 he was declared mentally fit He left the psychiatric hospital to continue his recovery in the rehabilitation center.
This is evidence of that Many of the psychiatric patients left in psychiatric hospitals may have a chance to reclaim their lives.
Several current investigations Linking many mental illnesses to inflammatory processes and autoimmune diseases.
Another issue
April case reminds us Susanna Kahlan’s “Brain on Fire” case, who wrote a memoir and inspired a movie.
Susanna who was a journalist was He was diagnosed with psychosis At the time, doctors thought she would likely die of encephalitis had it not been for the efforts of neurologist Suhail Najjar.
Finally they found it She suffered from a rare disease called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
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