Delusional disorder in a 25 year old Filipino male diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa: A case report
- Author:
Lawrence George Garcia
;
Gabino Rañoa
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Delusional;
Disorder;
Case report;
Pigmentosa
- MeSH:
Retinitis
- From:
The Philippine Journal of Psychiatry
2019;41(2):42-45
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Delusional disorder is an illness presenting with ideas of false
beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality
that persist despite the evidence to the contrary and these
beliefs are not ordinarily accepted by other members of the
person's culture or subculture1
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The patient is a 25-year old, male, single, former massage
therapist, 1st in a brood of 3 children from a province in
Visayas, Philippines, brought to the clinic due to talking
incoherently with inconsistent responses. This presented
after competing in Palarong Pambansa for the disabled. He
participated in the blind category since he was diagnosed
with Retinitis Pigmentosa.
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a group of genetic disorders
that affect the retina's ability to respond to light. This
inherited disease causes a slow loss of vision, beginning with
decreased night vision and loss of peripheral (side) vision,
and eventually blindness3
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He won many competitions, after which started hearing
voices accusing him of cheating. This persisted for months
which lead him to develop incoherent responses when talked
to, which prompted his relatives to bring him for psychiatric
consult.
This is an interesting case of patient with a psychiatric
condition who also presented with a degenerative disease.
- Full text:pjp 41-2-1-2-5.pdf
