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Introduction

According to the World Health Report (WHO, 2001), mental disorders affect one in four people worldwide at some point or the other in their lifetime. It is so common today that across nations, mental health issues are the fastest increasing encumbrance to the healthcare industry (Staniulienė, et al., 2013). Studies abound on the subject. However, the focus of the current essay is on the case of Ben, a compulsory patient diagnosed with drug-induced psychosis and undergoing treatment in a hospital setting. The following discussions not only explore the specific nature of Ben’s mental illness, but also evaluates the recovery strategies that can be adopted by the Mental Health Nurse (MHN) towards Ben in the context of the legislative rigour imposed by the Victorian Mental Health Act 2014. For an MHN, there are both legal and emotional challenges in treating a mentally-ill psychotic patient and this essay attempts to identify some of those.

The Case Overview

The Disorder

Ben suffers from drug-induced psychosis and is a compulsory patient under the Victorian Mental Health Act 2014. A few questions that obviously arise are: (i) what is psychosis and in particular, what is drug-induced psychosis, (ii) what is meant by a compulsory patient, (iii) what is Ben’s demographics — age, ethnicity, social habits, etc. (iv) what is Ben’s health history and family background and finally, (v) what is the Act referred to here.

While Ben’s demographics, family background and health history is not known for better analysis of the MHN’s role, it can certainly be said that Ben’s illness is in a critical state, whereby he has been ordered to be treated by law. According to the Victorian Mental Health Act 2014, a compulsory patient is one who is subject to either an assessment order, or court assessment order or temporary treatment order or a treatment order. Therefore, by all means, Ben’s condition is acute and he needs attention.

Termed also as ‘thought disorders’, psychosis generally means a mental state where one loses connection with reality or demonstrates a distorted sense of reality, without any consciousness (General Practitioner Booklet, 2007; National Drug Strategy, 2009). Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, loss of motivation, anxiety, affective blunting, violent behaviors, speech disturbance, etc., psychosis leads to complete social disability (Psychosis and Substance Use Booklet, 2011).

Sometimes one or some of these symptoms can arise in persons taking stimulant drugs like cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, hallucinogens, opioids, nicotine, sedatives, etc. (Caton, Samet & Hasin, 2000; What is Stimulant-Induced…). That is called drug-induced psychosis. It is immaterial what drugs Ben was addicted to or what were the manifestations of his disorder; what is more important is the recovery approaches and potential challenges of the MHM towards his treatment.

 

 

The Recovery Approach

There are two main approaches to the recovery of psychotic patients like Ben — medicines and psychotherapy. From the medicinal approach, MHN can use medicines, especially antipsychotics like pimozide, clozapine, chlorpromazine, haloperidol and amisulpride (Psychotic Disorders; National Drug Strategy, 2009). In psychotherapy, the MHN can hold one-to-one motivational interviews with patient, counsel and educate him, ask for caregiver interventions, support from patient’s family and other support groups.

Drug-induced psychosis is generally first-episode and acute psychosis, which is one of the commonest psychiatric emergencies (Byrne, 2007). Hence, Ben is a compulsory patient. The MHN responsible for Ben’s care need to integrate both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy to effectively recover Ben from his illness. According to the General Practitioner Booklet (2007), most young adults will recover completely, although around 10-20% of patients need continued care after the first-episode acute psychosis. Recovery also depends, to a large extent, on patient or his family’s cooperation to treatment, which includes compliance to doctor’s instructions, prescribed medicines.

It is not known if Ben’s case is an early detection, but if it is, chances of recovery is high (National Drug Strategy, 2009). Unfortunately, two-thirds of mentally ill people never seek professional help (WHO, 2001). Ben, evidently, falls into this category — he has been ordered a treatment, he did not seek it himself. Nevertheless, he can still fully recover if he cooperates with the MHN.

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