1. Frequent attendance with self-harm: what might you be missing?
- Author
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Alex B Thomson, Emma McAllister, and David Veale
- Subjects
Adult ,Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Pain ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,law ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,media_common ,Frequent attendance ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,General Medicine ,Patient Acceptance of Health Care ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,Intensive care unit ,Harm ,Feeling ,Emergency Medicine ,Female ,Medical emergency ,business ,Emergency Service, Hospital ,Self-Injurious Behavior - Abstract
A 38-year-old professional is brought in by police extremely distressed and in pain. She reports intense feelings of contamination over her arms and torso and fears that this is spreading and killing other people or animals. She has tried neutralising this contamination by applying concentrated sodium hydroxide (figure 1). She was taken to various emergency departments (ED) 39 times in the last 8 months and has a history of serious overdoses requiring intensive care unit admission. She says she did …
- Published
- 2019