303 results for “psychotic disorder”
34y · Female·not able to be determined - body not found
Sana Salman, a 34-year-old woman with bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, went missing on 1 September 2022 after being discharged from Northern Beach…
3y · Male·smothering
A 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 inadequa…
74y · Male·Hospital acquired pneumonia complicating chronic lung disease
…ic ward, and then to a mental health unit where he was placed on a Mental Health Act order for untreated psychotic disorder. His physical health deteriorated; he was transferred back to Royal Melbourne Hospital on 3 Oct…
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. I…
35y · Female·Stab wounds to the chest
…ecution, beliefs that Chen was having affairs, and violent threats. Although Luo had been prescribed antipsychotic medication (Risperdal) and anxiolytic medication (Oxazepam) in China, he ceased taking them upon return …
51y · Female·drowning
Laura Golding, a 51-year-old transgender female with longstanding bipolar affective disorder and recent psychotic episodes, died by drowning on 13 October 2017 after taking an unmanned dinghy into C…
33y · Male·gunshot wounds to chest and upper arm
A 33-year-old man with bipolar disorder on reducing doses of risperidone experienced a psychotic relapse and stabbed a stranger at a railway stat…
30y · Male·head and chest injuries sustained in a fall from a height
Ali Sultan Zaidi, a 30-year-old man with bipolar affective disorder, died from head and chest injuries sustained in a fall from height on 24 September 2007. He had a psychia…
41y · Male·unknown
Dean Anthony Pollard was a 41-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia and amphetamine-induced psychotic disorder who disappeared in May-June 2010 and is presumed dead. He had multiple psychiatric admissions b…
31y · Male·hanging
Christopher Hunter, a 31-year-old with emerging paranoid psychotic disorder, was admitted to Delmont Private Hospital for 3 days before requesting discharge against medica…
3y · Female·gunshot wound to the head
A 3-year-old girl was killed by her mother, who was experiencing a severe psychotic episode with suicidal and homicidal ideation. The mother had a history of Brief Psychotic Disorder (diag…
38y · Male·Internal haemorrhage complicating large calibre gunshot wounds to the neck
…e episodes, and untreated 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').…
48y · Female·intracerebral haemorrhage on a background of anticoagulation therapy for a recen…
Monique Jacinta Gomez, a 48-year-old woman with schizoaffective disorder and a mechanical aortic valve, died from intracerebral haemorrhage while receiving anticoagulation therap…
59y · Female·head injury
…thiel 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 Fe…
17y · Male·cranial and facial trauma
…th acute schizophrenia died from cranial and facial trauma after running off a 15.6-metre cliff during a psychotic episode. Hours before, he had been seen by a trainee psychologist who failed to recognize clear psychoti…
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 on 14 August 2017. She had been disch…
54y · Female·combined drug toxicity (heroin, morphine, cannabis, and prescription medications…
… died from combined drug toxicity involving heroin, cannabis, and prescription medications including antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. She had complex mental health disorders, acquired brain injury, and longstanding …
36y · Male·Hanging
A 36-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder, substance use disorder, and previous psychotic episodes was discharged from psychiatric inpatient care a…
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 20…
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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