Case study library

Governed case studies, surfaced as guided walkthroughs — the vignette first, then each step revealed one at a time.

• "At least now I know what it was about"

  delusional-mood · delusional-perception

• "Everyone says he seems fine, but look at how long it takes him to answer"

  morbid-disorder-of-emotion · smiling-depression · psychomotor-retardation

• "He describes it all so calmly, that's what struck me most"

  auditory-hallucination · thought-insertion · affect-blunting

• "He was completely certain, and completely wrong"

  confabulation · false-memory

• "His face doesn't move, but his eyes follow you round the room"

  catatonic-stupor · depressive-stupor

• "I hear her, but I know it's in my head"

  hallucination · pseudohallucination

• "I just can't sit still, doctor"

  akathisia · tardive-dyskinesia

• "I know now that it's all my fault"

  secondary-delusion · primary-delusion

• "I never actually got an answer"

  flight-of-ideas · circumstantiality

• "I went, but I didn't feel any of it"

  anhedonia

• "I'd rather he decided, honestly"

  dependent-personality-disorder

• "I've never been here before, but I have"

  deja-vu

• "It must just be a bit tired today"

  anosognosia · denial

• "Like I'm behind glass, and none of it touches me"

  depersonalisation · derealisation · dissociation-of-affect

• "Like I'm watching it through glass"

  depersonalisation · derealisation

• "Most people just don't operate on my level"

  narcissistic-personality-disorder

• "Oh, I had a lovely breakfast with my sister"

  confabulation

• "One minute I love them, the next I can't stand them"

  borderline-personality-disorder

• "The only person who has ever truly understood her"

  borderline-personality-disorder · dissocial-personality-disorder

• "The traffic light turned red, and I knew"

  delusional-perception

• "There was definitely nothing there"

  hallucination · illusion

• "There was definitely someone talking about me"

  hallucinosis · dream-like-change-of-consciousness

• "They're not my thoughts, and everyone can hear them anyway"

  thought-insertion · thought-broadcasting

• A voice heard "in my head," not in the room

  pseudohallucination

• Four ways a catatonic limb can respond

  waxy-flexibility · catalepsy · gegenhalten · mitmachen-mitgehen

• From the weather to a wedding in under a minute

  flight-of-ideas

• Slow, blank, and quiet after the infection

  lowering-of-consciousness

• The gesture that came back unasked

  echopraxia

• The patient who would not move, except in one small way

  catatonic-stupor · mannerisms

• The sentence that stopped in the middle

  thought-blocking

• The ten minutes before the fall

  retrograde-amnesia

• Three flavours of elevated mood

  ecstasy · morbid-euphoria · moria

• Three kinds of unusually vivid memory

  hyperamnesia · eidetic-imagery · flashbulb-memory

• Three points on a spectrum of conviction

  obsession · overvalued-idea · delusion

• Three tempos of pathological fear

  panic-attack · morbid-anxiety · anxious-foreboding

• Three ways a history can mislead

  pseudologia-fantastica · munchausens-syndrome · ganser-syndrome

• Tiny figures on the ceiling, and no idea what day it is

  dream-like-change-of-consciousness

• Voices in the running tap, and a smile that doesn't fit

  functional-hallucination · incongruity-of-affect