Admission Details for Patient: T T (9394)
Gender: Male Age: 53
Marital Status: Married Religion: Welseyan Methodist
Occupation: Sailor
Address: Holyhead, Anglesey
Date of Admission: March 9, 1920
Date of Discharge: August 24, 1920
Discharge Category: Recovered
Disease: Mania
Supposed Cause: (Worry about venereal disease)
Medical Certificate:
He is very talkative and excited. He is obsessed with the idea that he suffers from Venereal Disease which is eating away his testicles etc. He states he is very unhappy about it and is anxious to kill himself.
C T, Holyhead, his wife, states that at times he refuses all food, threatens to kill himself by cutting artery of his leg. Talks continually of the disease he imagines he suffers from.
Dr. John Lewis Owen, Holyhead. 9th March 1920.
Approximate duration of present attack: 3 months
Number of Previous Attacks: 0
Number of Previous Admissions: 0
Number of Subsequent Admissions: 0
Total Number of Admissions: 1
Relatives affected:
Epileptic: No
Suicidal: Tthreatens to cut throat
Dangerous: No
Clean Habit:
Food Refusal:
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Education:
Physical/Mental State at Examination: Fairly good health and condition but has a double inguinal hernia. Complains of pain in his testicles which are being eaten away inwardly. I find nothing wrong with them.
Current Diagnosis: Acute transient psychosis (F23.9)
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