Case History – Training Record

Training-only case history. For educational and supervision purposes.

Created: 27 Apr 2026, 12:23

Student & Batch

Student: s fatima

Batch: apr6

Case Header & Socio-demographic Details

Client name: Sarah

Age: 32 years old

Gender: female

Marital status: single

Education: (not filled)

Occupation: marketing manager

Residence: urban

Religion: -

Socio-economic status: middle

Handedness: -

Identification marks: -

Disability / Medical issues: (not filled)

Referral & Presenting Complaints

Source of referral: self

Relationship with informant: self

Chief complaints:

persistent feeling of overwhelm and dread drained energy level loss of interest

Presenting concerns:

the client have severe anxiety issues with intense negative thoughts showing reflection in her physical self like tiredness, sleep distractions, shortness of breath and tightening in the chest specially while dealing with professional pressure, also unable to concentrate on the things she earlier enjoyed like hobbies or friends, due to fear and anxiety

Client verbatim statement:

energy levels are drained no interest in hobbies waking up at 3 am loss of appetite anxiety specially before professional meetings increased isolation from peers

History of Present Illness (HOPI)

A – Affect / Emotion

overwhelm and dread drained energy levels

B – Behaviour

withdrawal, fear, anxiousness

C – Cognition

worries about future, professional life, and being left alone, losing interest in hobbies and daily stuff

D – Daily functioning

disruption in sleep loss of appetite

Onset & Course

Onset details

insidious along six months timeline

Course details

continuing for past six months

5 P's – Case Formulation

Predisposing factors

-

Precipitating factors

professional meetings, hypothetical future failures

Perpetuating factors

negative thoughts

Protective factors

trying to cope up through professional help

Present maintaining factors

overthinking and anxiety

Extended History

Family history

-

Personal history

-

Educational history

-

Vocational / occupational history

professionally sucessful

Sexual and marital history

-

Forensic history

-

Suicidal / self-harm / substance use history

-

Living conditions

alone and self established

Premorbid personality

good mood, friends, hobbies, professional achiever

SMART Goal Plan

write down your fears, and check what are real and unreal start working on real ones, start eliminating the unreal start grounding techniques to feel the reality make time for nature connect with it join a group of people of same hobbies sleep should be priority with a time bound exercise schedule performing some kind of meditation to control the negative thoughts journal your thoughts

Summary & Additional Notes

Summary: anxiety with sleep disturbance, fear with negative hypothetical professional failure thoughts, 32 years old, female, marketing manager

consult after 15 days make daily entry of goal achieved even if it is very small