Diagnosis and Management of Schizophrenia
Audrey Addaquay-Corey
University of Maryland, Baltimore
NURS 740

Identifying Information
AK is a single 27 year old female from West Africa. She was born and raised in West Africa until she moved to New Jersey for College at age 19. She currently resides with her parents in Baltimore in a single family home.
Chief Complaint “ This is all weird, but I feel like there are people after me”
History of Present Illness (HPI) AK graduated from a four year college in New Jersey in 2010. She moved to Baltimore, MD to live with her parents and to start a job as a middle school teacher. After teaching for two years, she was accepted to law school in August of 2012. Since August of 2012, she had been in law school while working part-time in a library. In August 2013, while in law school, she reports that she began to hear voices that told her she was not good enough to be a lawyer. She also reports that at that same time, she believed that her advisor was planting small video cameras in the library where she worked part-time to catch her making mistakes. She became increasingly agitated at work and reports her supervisor thought she was acting strangely. She lost her job at the library because her supervisor overheard her telling a customer that a particular DVD could not be checked out because it had surveillance photos that were being reviewed by the CIA. After being fired at the library, she went back to the library a day later yelling at her boss saying that she couldn't take the constant abuse of being watched by all the computer screens in the library. The police was called to the library to escort her out. In October 2013, she wrote emails to the Dean, her advisor, and other professors at her law school confronting them about the injustices such as the surveillance cameras they had installed in her computer and in