151 results for “paranoid psychosis”
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 delusion…
36y · Male·Gunshot wound to the forehead
… psychiatric hospitalisation. The coroner found mental health care was appropriate—no objective signs of psychosis were evident on professional assessment in February 2009, though his mother reported concerning behavior…
26y · Male·unascertained; suspected suicide by firearm
… substance abuse (heroin, OxyContin, cannabis) from age 21 and severe mental illness from 2009, including paranoid ideation and command hallucinations suggesting suicide. He was prescribed antidepressants but had poor me…
48y · Male·metastatic high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma, treated palliatively
Lindsay Woods, a 48-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia, organic psychosis, and ischaemic heart disease, died from metastatic high-grade neuroendoc…
30y · Male·unknown - no postmortem examination performed
…hiatric follow-up and involuntary detention protocols—Habtom had been hospitalised with schizophreniform psychosis/delusional disorder in December 1994 and discharged January 1995 with documented suicidal ideation. He s…
40y · Male·gunshot wounds
…ice 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 weapons being 'disarmed'. Police pursued a breach-and…
46y · Female·Ms Glendinning: multiple sharp force injuries (suicide); Jane Lesley Margaret Cu…
Heather Glendinning, severely mentally ill with chronic paranoid delusions exacerbated by cannabis abuse and stress from family court proceedings, killed her daughters Ja…
35y · Male·Unknown
Dennis Brooks, 35, a man with paranoid schizophrenia, disappeared from his Katoomba home on 2 May 2016 after exhibiting signs of psychotic relap…
30y · Male·gunshot wound to the head as a result of a police operation
…hot by NSW Police at Central Railway Station following a mental health crisis. He was experiencing acute psychosis with paranoid delusions that his family intended to harm him. After calling emergency services, he assau…
62y · Female·multiple self-inflicted stab wounds to the neck, thorax and abdomen
Rita Sally Greer, aged 62, died from multiple self-inflicted stab wounds while experiencing a severe psychotic episode. She had schizophrenia with documented poor medication compliance since 1990. On 10 September 2007, s…
50y · Male·gunshot wounds to chest and abdomen
…16 September 2015 following a mental health crisis. Kuskoff displayed florid psychotic symptoms including paranoid delusions, was heavily armed, and fired multiple shots from his property. Despite appropriate police stra…
27y · Male·combined effects of penetrating injuries (crossbow arrows) to heart and brain
…uries from crossbow arrows to the heart and brain during a police siege on 21 June 2006. He had exhibited paranoid and disturbed behaviour for 9 days before his death, calling an ambulance on 20 June but refusing assessm…
41y · Male·unknown
…une 2010 and is presumed dead. He had multiple psychiatric admissions between 2002-2010 with diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, and amphetamine-induced psychotic disorder. His last recorded c…
31y · Male·Hanging
…n RIT management on 10 June, 18 June and 2 July 2018 given his limited engagement with assessors, active psychosis, repeated self-harm attempts and medication non-compliance. He was not reviewed between 2-7 July despite…
30y · Male·head and chest injuries sustained in a fall from a height
…nably foreseen. No criticism was directed at Dr M.'s management. The coroner noted that due to the acute psychosis, the deceased did not form the necessary intent to commit suicide.
38y · Male·Multiple injuries
…ugust 2013 after reporting thoughts of harming his father. He had a complex psychiatric history including paranoid schizophrenia, substance dependence, and prior hospitalization. He denied suicidal intent but admitted oc…
50y · Male·coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardiac arrhythmia
Ejub Mehinovic, a 50-year-old man with treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia managed on clozapine, died from coronary artery atherosclerosis causing sudden fatal cardia…
49y · Male·undetermined
A 49-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia on clozapine became non-compliant with mental health appointments in July 2021. After threa…
23y · Male·Undetermined
…d male died from an undetermined cause following a night of cocaine and nitrous oxide use. He experienced paranoid and delusional thoughts, hallucinations about demonic possession, and reported chest pain and dyspnea. He…
30y · Male·external neck compression due to hanging
Tyson Matthews, a 30-year-old man with long-standing mental illness (psychosis, depression, antisocial personality disorder) and substance abuse, died by hanging four days after prese…
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