SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL CENTER HISTORY SHEET

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NAME COLE, Charita Lynette CASE NO. 103278

MARCH 16, 1982

This 22-year-old, black, female patient was admitted to this hospital for the first time on March 15, 1982 with two doctors certificates signed at Sinai Hospital beacause she was excited, manicky, hallucinating auditorily, hearing voices from God, paranoid with grandiose delusional ideation, unpredictability and some violent behavior.

On admission here she was quite uncooperative to the interviewer saying where is her husband and refusing to answer any questions and when she was further questioned she said, “fuck you” and in a very agitated manner. She was immediately taken to the ward and placed in the seclusion room.

In this interview the patient was quite out of contact with reality and not wanting to cooperate with the interviewing situation, so, I obtained the following information from her mother.

The patient was born in Baltimore City and was raised by her parents. Her mother is 50-years-old and a Teacher. Her father is also 50-years-old, a Chemical Operator. They seem to be getting along well. She has four sisters, the oldest one is 26, married with no children. She is a Senior Accountant Executive in a bank. She has another sister who is 24 and living with her aunt because she is single and she works as a Correctional Officer. She has another sister who is 18, a student at Coppin State College and a 15-year-old sister who is a student in high school. According to the mother, the patient’s mother’s mother, the grandmother, was in Springfield Hospital and Crownsville Hospital several times. The patent’s mother’s uncle was seen by a psychiatrist and the patient’s father’s sister was mentally retarded and died. The patient’s mother was seen in psychiatric outpatient at Phipps Clinic and she has not been on any medicine since 1973. There was nobody in the family who committed suicide.

The patient attends Wesleyan College in Connecticut and she was in her fourth year, a very good student, majoring in English.

The patient was never married. She has had no recent boy friends but in the past she was observed to have a boy friend by her mother. She has been hospitalized once in December, 1980 and January, 1981 at Connecticut Valley State Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut for two weeks, Diagnosed as Hypomanic. Since then, she has had no outpatient therapy except a few times she was seen at Sinai Outpatient Clinic and was not given any medication. The patient is reported to have no medical problems. According to the mother, the patient is not drinking and does not abuse Marijuana and takes no other drugs. According to the mother, the patient is in Apostolic Religion since 1979 converting from Catholic and according to this religion, is not allowed to abuse those drugs. She has never been arrested.

I. Turek, M.D.:cab

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