125 results for “acute mental health episode”
59y · Female·head injury
Ms Athiel Deng, a 59-year-old Sudanese refugee, was fatally assaulted by her son Majang Ngor during an acute psychotic episode induced by cannabis and methamphetamine use. Ngor had a documented first psychotic episo…
32y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in a fall from height
A 32-year-old man with a history of psychotic episodes and depression died by suicide after jumping from a cliff while experiencing an acute psychotic relapse.…
45y · Male·unable to determine
…nia, disappeared on 27 August 2013 and is presumed deceased. In the weeks preceding his disappearance, his mental health deteriorated significantly—he exhibited rapid speech, paranoid ideation about conspiracies, and app…
23y · Male·Haemorrhage from incised wounds to the neck and wrists
…rhage from self-inflicted knife wounds to his neck and wrists while experiencing a drug-induced psychotic episode following acute methylamphetamine intoxication. He had a complex trauma history including childhood domes…
42y · Female·Multiple stab wounds
A 42-year-old woman with first episode psychosis was referred to community mental health services in November 2020 after acute onset of paranoid…
53y · Male·Incised wound to the neck with consequential exsanguination from jugular vein la…
Phillip Spicer, 53, died from self-inflicted neck lacerations during a mental health crisis. He had recently moved to live with his son and presented with acute onset delusional though…
43y · Male·aspiration of vegetable matter with occlusion of the upper airway
…disorder, died on 25 September 2001 from aspiration of vegetable matter while experiencing a severe manic episode. In the two weeks before his death, multiple warning signs of psychiatric deterioration were documented: …
59y · Female·Sharp force injuries to the neck
…nd, Mr Dursun Yildiz, using a small axe at their home in Dallas, Victoria. The perpetrator had undiagnosed mental illness characterised by delusional beliefs that his life was at risk and auditory hallucinations. No disc…
23y · Male·Hanging whilst suffering acute mental illness, most likely a first episode delus…
A 23-year-old man in custody died by hanging in May 2011 while experiencing untreated first-episode psychosis with paranoid delusions. He had expressed suicidal ideation on 20 April and was assessed by a R…
36y · Female·Effects of fire and stab wounds (Kylie Fowler); effects of fire (Melanie Maher);…
…hildren (Samantha 18, Melanie 13, Matthew 11) and herself by stabbing and fire on 9 January 2011 during an acute psychotic episode. Critical system failures included: no confirmation that Ms Fowler engaged with her GP a…
46y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic brain injury as a result of cardiac arrest following a choking…
Andrea Sewell, a 46-year-old woman with Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome (ODS) and acute psychiatric illness, died from hypoxic brain injury following a choking episode during a meal in a psychia…
27y · Male·unascertained; likely death from entering water
…ear-old man, died after entering the water near Bondi Beach on 23 March 2017, likely after experiencing an acute mental health crisis characterised by paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations. Multiple clinical an…
37y · Male·Unascertained (death in custody)
…isperidone, this condition was not communicated to attending paramedics or police. When the patient became acutely agitated and refused voluntary admission, both CAT team and ambulance paramedics declined to transport h…
27y · Male·Self-inflicted wounds
…uicide on 18 November 2014 after self-inflicting penetrating neck wounds. He had no identified significant mental illness in the period before death, maintained positive relationships, and appeared happy during his trave…
62y · Male·cardiac arrest complicating psychotic episode
…, aged 62 with chronic treatment-resistant schizophrenia, died from cardiac arrest complicating psychotic episode at a supported residential facility. During escalating psychotic behaviour, paramedics applied a restrain…
5y · Male·multiple stab wounds
A 5-year-old boy died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by his father during an acute psychotic episode. The father, diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2003, was admitted to Hornsby Hospital in A…
40y · Male·gunshot wounds
…enia, died of gunshot wounds after a nine-hour police siege at his Taree home on 31 July 2019. Todd became acutely psychotic, waving a knife and expressing paranoid delusions about people entering his home and police we…
33y · Male·Gunshot injury to the anterior trunk (chest and upper abdomen)
…Harrison on 28 March 2019. Jack had deteriorated significantly over preceding days despite engagement with mental health services; he had refused voluntary hospital admission despite his mother's concerns. When police at…
61y · Male·Multiple severe crushing injuries sustained when run over by a motor vehicle
…ar on Davey Street, Hobart, shortly after leaving his GP's surgery where he had reported a recent syncope episode. The coroner could not determine with certainty whether Mr Cashion fell due to loss of consciousness or d…
48y · Male·shotgun wound to the head
A 48-year-old Yolngu man with chronic mental illness (schizophrenia) died from a shotgun wound to the head on Elcho Island, NT in April 1990. After spe…
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