867 results for “anxiety”
33y · Female·blunt impact injuries to neck and chest
A 33-year-old woman with depression, anxiety, and emerging psychotic symptoms presented to the ED on two consecutive days (26 and 28 October 2013). Fo…
56y · Female·acute pentobarbitone toxicity
56-year-old woman died from acute pentobarbitone toxicity in her Sydney apartment on 27-28 May 2016. She had a long history of mental health issues, depression, substance use, and prior self-harm. She had recently obtain…
43y · Male·Hanging
A 43-year-old man remanded in custody for serious sexual offences against children died by hanging in an older prison cell. While he expressed fears about safety and had passive suicidal ideation months before his death,…
28y · Female·compression of the neck and hanging
…ar-old Bridget Flack, a transgender woman experiencing complex mental health issues including depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder and PTSD, died by suicide in December 2020 after becoming increasingly i…
41y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of a mixed drug toxicity
…50-500mg daily prescribed dose). She had complex psychiatric history (ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, eating disorder) and chronic pain managed with polypharmacy. While clinicians' prescribing had reasonabl…
54y · Male·hanging by ligature
…dication non-compliance (toxicology suggested subtherapeutic drug levels) was not addressed; (4) PRN anti-anxiety medication was not administered despite clear distress. The coroner found his death probably preventable …
19y · Male·In keeping with hanging
A 19-year-old male with depression and anxiety died by hanging at his home on 5 March 2021, hours after police and ambulance attended him in the early m…
49y · Male·Stab wound to the chest
A 49-year-old man with anxiety and depression died from a self-inflicted stab wound to the chest sustained during police response to a d…
59y · Male·head injuries
…ned at Nolan House mental health facility in April 2021. He developed sudden onset severe mental illness (anxiety disorder with depressive features, with possible psychotic depression) triggered by debilitating vestibul…
31y · Male·hanging
…oval occurred in early hours of 17 April 2020 during COVID-19 lockdown. B W had long-standing depression, anxiety, and alcohol misuse, was under financial and parenting stress, and had made previous suicide threats. Pol…
47y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (pregabalin, oxycodone and mirtazapine)
…man died from mixed drug toxicity involving pregabalin, oxycodone, and mirtazapine. She had chronic pain, anxiety, and depression, and attended a medical clinic frequently. Over five days before her death, she was presc…
38y · Male·self-inflicted hanging
…ic attempted hanging on 10 September while intoxicated (0.18% BAC). On 14 September, he was admitted with anxiety disorder and borderline personality disorder diagnoses. Despite a prior suicide attempt on the same eveni…
Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to hanging
…ile experiencing severe postnatal depression eight weeks after giving birth. She presented to the ED with anxiety, insomnia, and suicidal ideation and was admitted to the Logan Hospital Mental Health Unit for three days…
15y · Female·Paracetamol toxicity in the setting of Anorexia Nervosa
Olivia Evans, 15, died from paracetamol toxicity in the setting of anorexia nervosa after intentionally overdosing. She had 38 inpatient admissions over two years with escalating food refusal, self-harm, and suicidal beh…
36y · Male·Hanging
A 36-year-old male prisoner with complex psychiatric history, substance use disorder, and recent cancer diagnosis died by hanging in prison. Recent mental health assessments (within 3 days) had classified him as low suic…
47y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (venlafaxine, duloxetine, mirtazapine, oxycodone, tapentadol…
Kim Bartolo, a 47-year-old woman with depression, anxiety, alcohol use disorder and chronic conditions, died from mixed drug toxicity involving multiple prescripti…
31y · Male·bronchopneumonia and hypoxic brain injury following ligature compression of the …
31-year-old Moses Sokiri died on 26 October 2014 from bronchopneumonia and hypoxic brain injury following suicide by hanging at Greenwood train station on 12 October 2014. The deceased was in acute mental health crisis w…
38y · Male·Hanging
Charles Hurst, a 38-year-old man with schizophrenia, depression and anxiety, died by hanging in his prison cell while in custody at Maryborough Correctional Centre in November 2012.…
43y · Male·hypoxic brain injury secondary to asphyxiation by ligature
A 43-year-old man died from hypoxic brain injury due to asphyxiation by ligature while an inpatient at a rehabilitation centre. He had undergone spinal surgery for back pain and cauda equina syndrome but was failing to i…
33y · Male·sharp force injuries of the neck
Malcolm Brown, a 33-year-old Aboriginal man with a history of methamphetamine use, mental health crisis, and self-harm threats, died from sharp force injuries to his neck on 29 June 2022 following a NSW Police operation.…
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