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patient complains of social dysfunction related to color

symptoms:	homicidal/suicidal tendencies
	erratic episodes of deep depression

chronic intermittent unemployment requiring outside financial

assistance (beg, borrow, steal)

past history:	patient is a young black female divorcee with
	two children. she is alert and cooperative

one moment and sullen and resentful the next. she states that

the complaint which brings her here today is on-going since birth

she also states she has seen other physicians in the past and

although they agree that she “does have something” they were

unable to determine its etiology

examination:	patient exhibits emotional instability, for
	example, crying and laughing at the same time

other mood swing observed encompassed hope to anger; an

insatiable hunger expressed by the patient as a “desire for freedom

and power of self-determination.” this phenomenon has no

apparent physiological source

recommendation:

institutionalization