Coronial

51 results for depression with psychotic features

SAmental health2025-03-06

Coroner's Finding: Fowles, Wayne Lincoln

59y · Male·hanging

A 59-year-old man with major depression and psychotic features was lawfully detained under an inpatient treatment order at Noarlun…

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WAcommunity2025-08-11

Inquest into the Suspected Death of Simon Brian HARRINGTON

34y · Male·unascertained (suspected suicide, but body not located so no post-mortem examina…

Simon Harrington, a 34-year-old man with depression and psychotic features, disappeared on 10 January 2011 after starting a new job that triggered a…

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SAhome2000-03-08

Coroner's Finding: KAPTSIS Michael Vasilious

3y · Male·smothering

…3-year-old boy died from smothering by his mother, who was suffering from severe bipolar affective disorder with psychotic features and severe depression. The coroner examined whether psychiatric care was inadequate. The…

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SAhospital2020-06-18

Coroner's Finding: BOYCE Ian Charles

85y · Male·hospital acquired pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal carcinoma

…om hospital-acquired pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal cancer. He was admitted to hospital with psychotic depression, suicidal ideation, and severe malnutrition after two years of depression. A CT scan r…

psychiatrygeriatric medicine
TAShospital2022-03-21

Coroner's Finding: Rouse, Rex

86y · Male·pulmonary embolism following deep vein thrombosis

…spital on 26 May 2020. He was admitted under a Mental Health Act assessment order following a relapse of psychotic depression at his aged care facility. Clinical examination found no acute cause for his mental deteriora…

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VICcommunity2023-11-23

Finding into death of Melissa Louise Arbuckle

33y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (propranolol, oxycodone, diazepam, temazepam, lurasidone, du…

…of infanticide following her daughter Lily's death in July 2021, which occurred during severe postpartum depression with psychotic features. Although Ms Arbuckle showed significant recovery and positive life progress in …

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WA2023-08-23

Inquest into the Deaths of Adell Sherylee PARTRIDGE and Veronica Philomena LOCKYER

Female·unascertained

Two Indigenous women from the Pilbara disappeared in late 1998 without trace: Veronica Lockyer (33 years old) and her infant daughter Adell Partridge (7 months old). Veronica …

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NSWmental health2024-05-16

Inquest into the death of Roger Frederick Schnelle

59y · Male·head injuries

…use 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 vestibular symptoms. Des…

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SAcommunity2014-03-12

Coroner's Finding: MUNDY Michaela Jayne

15y · Female·neck compression due to hanging

Michaela Mundy, a 15-year-old with depression, was seen by CAMHS therapist Vina Hotich from July-November 2011, presenting with suicidal ideat…

psychiatrygeneral practicediagnosticcommunicationfluoxetine
NSW2024-12-12

Inquest into the death of Mr S

57y · Male·Hanging

…Correctional Centre in January 2018. Although he had been psychiatrically assessed as experiencing major depression with psychotic features and was recommended by a psychiatrist for placement in a two-occupant cell as su…

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TAScommunity2020-08-13

Coroner's Finding: Wright, Maria Rebekah

31y · Female·drowning, deliberately self-inflicted with intention of ending life

Maria Rebekah Wright, a 31-year-old woman with severe borderline personality disorder and chronic suicidality, died by drowning at Howrah Beach, Tasmania …

psychiatrypsychologyparacetamol
SAmental health2000-04-28

Coroner's Finding: SCOTT Laurie Joseph

53y · Male·asphyxia due to upper airway occlusion by a foreign body (blanket)

A 53-year-old man with complex psychiatric disorder (schizophrenia, depression, intellectual disability) died by asphyxiation afte…

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SAhome2002-11-06

Coroner's Finding: JERICHO Patricia Susanne

43y · Female·neck compression due to hanging

A 43-year-old woman with longstanding depression and previous suicidal ideation presented to Emergency Department twice within 14 da…

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SAmental health2000-04-07

Coroner's Finding: SANDERS Sandra June

42y · Female·salt water drowning

…ater drowning after absconding from Woodleigh House psychiatric unit on 3 September 1997. She had presented with major depression with psychotic features following a recent suicide attempt, and was appropriately detained…

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SAhospital2001-05-16

Coroner's Finding: KLOSE Glen Malcolm

71y · Male·Saddle pulmonary embolus as a consequence of deep venous thrombosis in the right…

…m a saddle pulmonary embolus secondary to deep vein thrombosis in his right calf, a complication associated with his history of multiple knee surgeries. He was admitted to Glenside Hospital on 14 July 2000 under Mental H…

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VICmental health2013-08-23

Finding into death of James Falzon

65y · Male·Hanging

James Falzon, a 65-year-old man with psychotic depression admitted to Peter James Centre psychiatric ward, died by suicide via hanging. He had b…

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TAShome2018-02-28

Coroner's Finding: Evans, Jillian and John

62y · Male·Mr Evans: self-inflicted gunshot wound to head and asphyxiation by hanging. Mrs …

…chosis manifesting as delusions about chemical infestation of their home. The coroner found Mr Evans was psychotic at the time of death. From May 2013, Mr Evans presented repeatedly to general practitioners with escalat…

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SAhospital2011-09-23

Coroner's Finding: BLYTHE Dorothy Josephine

81y · Female·ischaemic bowel

An 81-year-old woman with longstanding depression and multiple comorbidities fell and fractured her humerus in March 2009. During reh…

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VIC2014-08-25

Finding into death of Keiran Bailey

44y · Male·Complications of blunt head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (cycl…

…ing. The driver, who caused the collision, had a documented psychiatric history including schizophrenia, depression, psychosis, and polydrug abuse. Despite psychiatric treatment and psychiatric hospital admissions in 201…

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VICaged care2016-06-07

Finding into death of Margaret Jane Gardiner

70y · Female·bronchopneumonia

…ronchopneumonia while an involuntary inpatient at an aged psychiatry unit. She had longstanding anxiety, depression, and eating disorder with recent significant physical and mental health deterioration. Pneumonia was dia…

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