Margot Kidder Paper
Identifying data: The patient is a 47 year old Canadian-American mother of one daughter, divorced (three times) actress who is presented here today at the clinic.
Referred by: LA Police and Oliveview Medical Care.
Chief complaint: Ms. K is here today because there are concerns about her severe mood swings, paranoia, and the amount of alcohol and drugs she has been consuming.
History of Chief Complaint: Ms. K has reported having mood swings at an early age. She has attempted suicide at the age of 14 by ingesting codeine pills. The day after the incidence she would be back to a stable state. Parents sent her to boarding school since they were moving around very often, after attending 11 different schools in 12 years. After school, she moved to different places to pursue her acting career. During this time, the patient got married for her first time and shortly after had her daughter and was divorced. She stayed at home taking care of her daughter for three years before she went back to acting. She was then married and divorced two more times that both also only lasted less than one year. The patient was then in a severe car accident that left her out of work causing financial problems and eventually bankruptcy. During the time she was not working from her injury, she worked on her autobiography for three years. When she would write her autobiography, she would sometimes write for 10 to 12 hours at a time while chain smoking, drinking excessive amounts of coffee, and barely eating or sleeping. The patient then reported getting a virus of some sort on her computer that deleted all of her work that she has done on her book. She reported being paranoid believing that her ex-husband had connections with the government that put the virus on her computer, and believing that he wanted to kill her. The patient began taking prescription pills and drinking when she was having these episodes. She was reported missing for four days after filing bankruptcy and selling
Referred by: LA Police and Oliveview Medical Care.
Chief complaint: Ms. K is here today because there are concerns about her severe mood swings, paranoia, and the amount of alcohol and drugs she has been consuming.
History of Chief Complaint: Ms. K has reported having mood swings at an early age. She has attempted suicide at the age of 14 by ingesting codeine pills. The day after the incidence she would be back to a stable state. Parents sent her to boarding school since they were moving around very often, after attending 11 different schools in 12 years. After school, she moved to different places to pursue her acting career. During this time, the patient got married for her first time and shortly after had her daughter and was divorced. She stayed at home taking care of her daughter for three years before she went back to acting. She was then married and divorced two more times that both also only lasted less than one year. The patient was then in a severe car accident that left her out of work causing financial problems and eventually bankruptcy. During the time she was not working from her injury, she worked on her autobiography for three years. When she would write her autobiography, she would sometimes write for 10 to 12 hours at a time while chain smoking, drinking excessive amounts of coffee, and barely eating or sleeping. The patient then reported getting a virus of some sort on her computer that deleted all of her work that she has done on her book. She reported being paranoid believing that her ex-husband had connections with the government that put the virus on her computer, and believing that he wanted to kill her. The patient began taking prescription pills and drinking when she was having these episodes. She was reported missing for four days after filing bankruptcy and selling