Problem: Alejandro Escobar-Vega Case Study
You are still seeing Alejandro Escobar-Vega (he, him, his), a 34-year-old Latino man. He attended your group therapy sessions last year, and you saw him for individual therapy. You diagnosed him with DSM-5-TR F33.1 Major Depressive Disorder, recurrent, moderate, and placed him on trazodone 50 mg by mouth at bedtime as needed for sleep, and lorazepam (Ativan) 0.5 mg by mouth 3 times daily for anxiety and agitation, initially. Subsequently, he began taking 100 mg quetiapine (Seroquel) and 100 mg lamotrigine (Lamictal). He was admitted to the hospital for attempted suicide for the third time last week, when he ingested one hundred 100 mg quetiapine (Seroquel) and one hundred 100 mg lamotrigine (Lamictal) pills. He spent last week in the intensive care unit and is now in a medical unit, where he is undergoing medical stabilization. Given the number of pills he ingested, it is likely he was not regularly taking his medications and was stockpiling them. Need Assignment Help?