Multi Axis Diagnosis

VIGNATE: MULTI-AXIAL DIAGNOSTICS
Axis I. Panic disorder, Agoraphobia.
The client was a second-year college girl by the name Trisha. She was involved in an act of being raped by an acquaintance after a party. She developed symptoms of a complication which was thought to be a panic disorder known as agoraphobia (Folgliat, et al., 2016). She had, therefore, to drop out of school and went to live with her parents in an attempt to keep herself away from the environment that she experienced the problem.
Axis II. Personality disorders:
Still, while the client was away from school, she could always remember the occasion and it depressed her so much. She could remember this when it kept coming in her dreams. She then rarely gets enough sleep due to these dreams and as a result, she becomes depressed. She chooses to seclude herself from her lovely friends and also the loved ones.
Axis III. General medical conditions:
She also develops medical conditions including difficulties in breathing, experiences of nausea and stomach complications. These complications came in a cascade of events and since they were unpredictable, her normal functioning was hampered (Folgliat, et al., 2016).
Axis IV. Psychological and environmental factors;
With all these problems, her psychology was affected and she chose to be homebound because she feared involving herself with people in crowded places because she felt embarrassed. The environment also affected her since she was not comfortable when she saw things just happen naturally when she had depression deep in her mind.

She felt disturbed since this act of rape happened to only herself and that’s why she chose to seclude herself from the rest of other people. Seclusion was also the main reason why she dropped out of school.
RATIONALE FOR DIAGNOSTICS
The diagnostics of panic disorder was correct because the experiences that the client went through were exactly similar to those experienced by an ideal patient of the panic disorder.

REFERENCE
Foglia, V. J., Dear, B. F., Staples, L. G., Terides, M. D., Sheehan, J., Johnston, L., … & Titov, N. (2016). Disorder-specific versus transdiagnostic and clinician-guided versus self-guided internet-delivered treatment for panic disorder and comorbid disorders: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of anxiety disorders, 39, 88-102.