Self-Harm case study
Diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder. Target Behavioiur: Self-harm (Patient lives in Southend, Essex)
Fear of Abandonment
Diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder. Target Behaviour: Inability to spend time alone (Patient lives in Ipswich, Suffolk)
Defectiveness Abandonment Schema
Diagnosed: Emotionally unstable personality disorder, depression and abandonment issues. Limited Reparenting.
Chronic Worry and Anxiety
Diagnosis: Generalised Anxiety Disorder (patient lives in Hitchin in Hertfordshire)
Relationship Problems
Diagnosed: Borderline Personality Disorder. Abandonment Schema. Relationship problems. (Client lives in Thurrock (Grays), Essex)
Self-Hate and Self-Bullying
Diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder. Target behaviour: self-harm and occasional suicidal ideation
Fears Around Commitment
Diagnosis: Mild depression (patient lives in Stratford St Mary, near Colchester)
Depression
Diagnosis: Depression (client lives with her parents, in late-middle age, in Chelmsford, Essex)
Multiple Anxiety Disorders
Diagnosed: Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Highly Avoidant. (Client lives in Great Dunmow, Essex)
Narcissistic Personality Traits
Diagnosis: Alcohol overuse, Entitlement Schema. Target Behaviour: Narcissistic personality traits (Patient lives in Maldon, Essex)
PTSD with Pseudo-Hallucinations
Diagnosis: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Specific Symptom: Severe, intrusive pseudo-hallucinations
Marital Conflict, Marriage Problems
Diagnosed: Emotional problems, mainly anger, due to problems in marital relationship