CC:
Schizophrenia Case Study
“I don’t belong here. I didn’t bother anyone.”
HPI:
JC is a 33-year-old man who was brought to the emergency department (ED) overnight by
police. He lives in a group home, but hasn’t gone back there for 6 days because “my roommate
is a demon and he put a curse on my pillow to take my thoughts.” JC was arrested for
trespassing when he wouldn’t leave a shed where he’d been squatting for about a week. Prior to
his visit to the shed, he had been on his way to a doctor’s appointment when a voice spoke to
him at the bus stop, telling him to “go, go, get away now.” He wandered across the city and
found an unlocked shed. JC is afraid that his roommate wants to harm him, and became so
agitated when the police tried to drop him off at the group home that he was brought to the
hospital. He spent all the money he had in his pockets on food the first couple of days while
staying in the shed, and presents to the hospital as unkempt, malodorous, and hungry. He is
upset about being hospitalized. When contacted, the group home supervisor stated that JC’s
roommate is a mild-mannered older gentleman and there have been no behavioral or
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