Case Presentation: A 26 year old female with no past medicalor psychiatric history presented to our hospital by her friends after they reported complaining that she had been behaving impulsive and manic during the preceding week. As described by friends and family, patient had recently traveled from Arkansas to Chicago to visit her family. However [...]

Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male with a history of chronic anemia and schizophrenia presented to the emergency department (ED) from home for seven days of worsening COVID-19 respiratory disease. He was admitted for hypovolemic shock and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). His home dose of haloperidol 5 mg daily and 20 mg nightly was continued. [...]

Case Presentation: Our patient is a 63-year-old Caucasian male with a past medical history of schizophrenia on risperidone, psychogenic polydipsia and chronic hyponatremia. He presented to the emergency department after being discovered unresponsive in a personal care home. He was tachycardic with a heart rate of 110, hypertensive with a blood pressure of 194/95 mmHg [...]

Case Presentation: A 42 year-old man with a past medical history of alcohol use disorder, depression and prior suicide attempt who was admitted to psychiatry after a gabapentin overdose while intoxicated. His home medications included sertraline, naltrexone, and gabapentin. Ethanol level on admission was 204 mg/dL. Sertraline was continued and he was started on trazodone [...]