A client who was hospitalized with a diagnosis of schizophrenia tells the nurse, "My veins have turned to stone and my heart is solid!" How would the nurse identify this statement?
Schizophrenia is a mental condition which is associated with several psychological symptoms.
A person suffering from schizophrenia finds it difficult to distinguish between reality and his/her thoughts and ideas and this condition is known as psychosis.
A client stating that "My veins have turned to stone and my heart is solid!" represents depersonalisation which is a condition in schizophrenia where a person has an unstable self-identity and gets a feeling that one's body parts may have changed.
