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Case report: Hallucinations as depressive equivalents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

E. Garcia*
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real, Spain
I. Vicente
Affiliation:
Hospital General de Ciudad Real, USMIJ, Ciudad Real, Spain
R. Martínez
Affiliation:
Hospital General de Ciudad Real, USMIJ, Ciudad Real, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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We comment the case of a 12 years old girl who started with visual and auditive hallucinations. Hallucinations are not a common symptom between children. They may also be linked to many conditions, some of them with poor outcome as schizophrenia. Symptoms appeared in a short time, after a previous normal development. She talked about a man who followed her and that was always behind, she also had heard some insults of undeterminated voices. These symptoms were just of one-month duration and made her feel anxious and very afraid. After a normal organical study and a first proposal of medication they asked for our consultation. We found that the patient was alone at home every afternoon. Family, from other country, hadn’t any social support, and the father had had to travel away some days before the child began to suffer hallucinations. Suspecting an affective disorder as the basis of anxious symptoms, and hallucinations as a cultural presentation of them, we started with a social intervention mixed with support therapy. After some sessions the patient could talk about her loneliness and fears, disappearing the other symptoms. We will resume this case and literature about other cultural presentations that may difficult diagnosis or treatment.

Disclosure of interest

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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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