Mental Health Field Scenario to be used. A service user who left home at 16 and struggled emotionally and financially suffered a psychotic breakdown at the age of 19. the service user was sectioned (taken to hospital under the Mental Health Act) and diagnosed with schizophrenia.

She had a further breakdown at the age of 25 and was sectioned again following which she spent several years as a patient at a day hospital. she is now back home with her parents and her symptoms are controlled by a drug called risperidone. She does not like taking this because of the side effects and also self-medicated with alcohol.