“…I Just Wanted to Report Me, I Went Into the Subway Without Paying 9 Times…”

Abstract

A clinical case is presented. The reason for admission was for behavioral disturbances and agitation piscomotriz episode in the street: she had gone to a library to “denounce” the police for entering the subway without paying several times. The patient was very distraught because she was heavily guarded (someone had tapped her phone, entered her house, changed objects place, she was chased down the street…). In the psychopathological examination revealed the sphere of language, her speech was fluid, with pressured speech, full of details, with loss of thread and highlighted the presence of neologisms and grammatical errors (changes of subject and predicate…) and changes some letters by others in the same word. She often used sayings incorrectly and, when you are exploring about this fact, objectively presenting alteration in abstract thinking. In addition, it presents self-references on television. The diagnostic impression was chronic psychotic process of years of evolution. In this case, it was decided to administer intramuscular antipsychotic treatment because she was not aware of the disease but presenting good tolerability profile because, otherwise, leave the track and also a good social functioning was sought. Currently, she continues in mental health, she has not reported new crisis and a progressive scan objective improvement in the organization of thought and speech, leaving the psychotic symptoms.

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