Ms. Nelson Case Study Essay

Ms. Nelson has demonstrates a clinical necessity arising from a condition due to mental behavioral, or emotional illness. This results in significant functional impairments in major life activities and areas. Ms. Nelson is diagnosed with 296.52 Bipolar 1 Disorder. However, Ms. Nelson was able to state her diagnosis during reassessment including depression and schizophrenia, which was not been diagnosed the original assessment. Ms. Nelson displays symptoms such as aggression, agitation, anxiety, elevated moods, depression, hallucinations, anger, memory loss, and elevated moods. Ms. Nelson lacks motivation to complete daily task and sleep majority of the day due to all the medication she's taking. Ms. Nelson reported that she needs motivation to complete here tasks around the home as well as taking her medication.

There is a major concern with Ms. Nelson taking all these medications, which may contribute to the increase hallucinations as well as the memory loss. Ms. Nelson currently having some family issues, which caused some of her medications to be increased. The assessor observed Ms. Nelson appeared to be very open during the assessment answering all questions to be best of her ability. However, she appeared to been experiencing some anxiety during the reassessment due to her constantly moving her hands, feet and picking up her