This project focuses on mental health and mental health disorders since they significantly affect the quality of life of affected individuals and their families. In week one, I interviewed K.H, a 35-year-old male diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after exhibiting delusions and hallucinations, which alternated with depressive symptoms. Schizoaffective disorder is diagnosed when there is an uninterrupted duration of mental disorder during which there is a major mood episode, either manic or depressive, in addition to schizophrenia (Miller & Black, 2019). This paper seeks to describe the information collected about a person with schizoaffective disorder and discuss how the information will direct care plan development.
Questionnaire Responses
K.H’s responses from the questionnaire I administered in week 1 identified that he has little or no interest in engaging in pleasurable activities more than half of the days. He feels down, depressed, and hopeless nearly every day, indicating a severe depressed mood. K.H reported having sleeping difficulties to some degree with problems initiating and maintaining sleep. As a result, he feels tired and has low energy levels more than half of the days. He also reported having a poor appetite which has contributed to a significant weight loss. Besides, K.H admitted that he feels bad about himself most of the days and feels that he has let himself and his family down since the disease greatly affected his occupational and social functioning.
K.H stated that he experiences difficulties in concentrating most of the days, which has adversely impacted his occupational productivity. Nevertheless, he denied having psychomotor retardation or having suicidal and homicidal thoughts or ideations. Based on K.H’s responses from the questionnaire, I concluded that he has a major depressive disorder since he had four ticks in depressive symptoms occurring more than half the days and one tick in symptoms occurring nearly every day.
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