The diagnosis of depression is now well understood and recognized by many people, but schizophrenia, regardless of its diagnostic name or prognosis, is difficult to accept, so many family members may reject the disease from the bottom of their hearts, and even if their loved ones have it, they may think that it is just depression and it does not matter. Liu Yan, Psychiatry Department, Shanghai Mental Health Center
Case 1 **, female, 30 years old, married to her husband in 1996 and went to live in Hong Kong, soon after her mother received a phone call from her saying that she was unhappy and that Hong Kong people were bullying mainlanders; then she called her mother to tell her that her husband was also not treating her well, not caring about her and even working with her mother-in-law to fix her; she smelled a pungent smell and suspected that her husband had set her up with poison gas; she was followed on the road; then she divorced her husband. After returning to Shanghai, she quarreled with her mother, thought there was something wrong with her mother’s decoration, moved away from her mother’s house alone, demanded high food safety while living alone, ate children’s food all day long; stayed bedridden at home, did not want to go out and did not want to see her friends. The mother suspected depression and approached the doctor for advice.
After the doctor’s examination, the patient was typically schizophrenic. On the advice of the doctor, she received antipsychotic medication.