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117 results for paranoid delusions

VICaged care2025-09-10

Finding into death of IWT

77y · Female·Complications of malnutrition in a woman with paranoid delusions

…h complex medical and psychiatric history died from complications of malnutrition while an inpatient with paranoid delusions and delirium. She was admitted following falls and required compulsory treatment under the Ment…

psychiatrygeriatric medicineolanzapine
VICcommunity2015-05-29

Finding into death of Craig Doherty

49y · Male·Multiple injuries from a fall from height

…pse. On the day of death, he was seen by his GP and mental health crisis team, both noting deterioration, paranoid delusions, and non-compliance with Olanzapine. Despite being assessed as requiring either hospital admiss…

psychiatrygeneral practicelithium
WA2024-05-08

Inquest into the Death of Michael John BIRD

22y · Male·Multiple injuries from fall from 21st floor balcony

… new workplace on his first day as building manager. He had been experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions about police surveillance for several months, likely due to an undiagnosed psychiatric conditio…

general practicepsychiatrycommunicationsystemzolpidem
VIChospital2021-11-17

Finding into death of H J

76y · Female·Undetermined (natural causes)

HJ, a 76-year-old woman with chronic psychotic disorder and paranoid delusions, presented with abdominal pain, vomiting, and small bowel obstruction. Imaging revealed bilater…

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WAcommunity2016-03-18

Inquest into the Death of David Davidson LAWSON

41y · Male·unascertained

…r Peninsula in October 2010. He was last seen exhibiting acute psychosis with auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions about evil spirits and bush men. Despite an extensive multi-agency search, his body was never f…

psychiatryemergency medicinesystemcommunicationolanzapine
NSWcommunity2019-08-05

Mokmool

30y · Male·gunshot wound to the head as a result of a police operation

…ice 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 assaulted a florist …

psychiatrygeneral practicemethadone
NSWcommunity2025-10-31

Inquest into the disappearance and suspected death of Sana Salman

34y · Female·not able to be determined - body not found

…rged from Northern Beaches Hospital on 22 August 2022. She had been admitted for a psychotic relapse with paranoid delusions related to poor medication compliance. Despite recent improvement during hospitalisation and co…

psychiatrysystemcommunicationclozapine
WAhospital2025-03-06

Inquest into the Death of Jalen Hunter NORRIS

23y · Male·Multiple injuries from being struck by train

Jalen Hunter Norris, aged 23, died by suicide when struck by a train on 9 April 2021. He was experiencing paranoid delusions and had recently been arrested for criminal damage and cannabis possession after an incident at…

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TAScommunity2025-06-20

Coroner's Finding: Haig, Jeff

60y · Male·Undetermined - likely natural causes (centriacinar emphysema) or misadventure (f…

Jeff Malcolm Haig, a 60-year-old man with multiple sclerosis and documented paranoid and delusional beliefs about being monitored, was found deceased at Low Head, Tasmania on 26 August 2022,…

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NSWhome2024-04-05

Inquest into the death of Todd McKenzie

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…

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VICcommunity2021

Finding into death of Mr O

47y · Male·Hanging

A 47-year-old man with newly diagnosed schizophrenia died by hanging. He had presented with paranoid delusions and was engaged with mental health services in February 2017. Critical deficiencies were identi…

psychiatrygeneral practicecommunicationsystemlurasidone
TAScommunity2018-06-12

Coroner's Finding: Osborn, James Lee

62y · Male·drowning

…rioration in mental health. He had a long history of depression but experienced acute decompensation with paranoid delusions in the weeks before death, triggered by a petrol spill incident. Following psychiatric admissio…

psychiatryemergency medicinesystemcommunicationolanzapine
QLDcommunity2016-02-05

Cooper, Paul James - Non-inquest findings

41y · Male·Hanging

…atric review. He had recently commenced Isotretinoin for severe acne, which coincided with development of paranoid delusions, suicidal ideation, and significant functional decline. Although initially assessed as low-risk…

psychiatrygeneral practicecommunicationsystemisotretinoin
VICmental health2018-02-23

Finding into death of Hilda Billman

73y · Female·UNASCERTAINED

Hilda Billman, a 73-year-old woman with paranoid schizophrenia, absconded from Bendigo Psychiatric Centre on 6 September 1996 while an involuntary patient…

psychiatrysystem
NSWhome2016-07-19

Inquest into the deaths of Benjamin Green and William Markee

32y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head (Benjamin Green: homicide by William Markee; William M…

…ep, then shot himself. Clinical lesson: Markee had clear, untreated mental health issues characterised by paranoid delusions, obsessive fixation, and suicidal ideation, but never engaged with available mental health serv…

psychiatrygeneral practicedelay
VIChome2015-04-13

Finding into death of Athiel Deng

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 episode in…

psychiatryemergency medicinesystemdelaycannabis
WAmental health2015-11-25

Inquest into the Death of Yvonne HENDERSON

54y · Female·multiple injuries sustained in head-on motor vehicle collision

Yvonne Henderson, a 54-year-old with chronic delusional disorder, died in a head-on motor vehicle collision on 6 December 2010 while on approved leave from involuntary psychiatric admission. She was driving her van on th…

psychiatrygeneral practicesystemdocumentationolanzapine
NSW2015-11-11

Inquest into the death of W

23y · Male·Hanging whilst suffering acute mental illness, most likely a first episode delus…

…-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 Risk Intervention Team. D…

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NSWhome2021-03-11

Inquest into the death of Chan Chen

35y · Female·Stab wounds to the chest

…gh stab wounds to the chest. Luo had displayed increasingly erratic behaviour throughout 2019, including delusions of persecution, beliefs that Chen was having affairs, and violent threats. Although Luo had been prescri…

general practicepsychiatrydiagnosticcommunicationrisperidone
SAcommunity2001-06-02

Coroner's Finding: MacLEOD Grant Alistair

38y · Male·Internal haemorrhage complicating large calibre gunshot wounds to the neck

…treated mental illness. In the week before his death, he showed increasing evidence of psychotic illness (paranoid ideation, bizarre behavior, delusional statements about being 'possessed by a witch'). During the confron…

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