The mother who kept a padlock on the trousers of her daughter: A case report of schizophrenia

In this article, a mother with schizophrenia with protecting behaviors leading to serious limitations of her eight-year-old daughter has been presented. The patient had first claimed her husband's sexual unfaithfulness and then his sexual abuse on her daughter. She believed that her husband had raped her child several times and he even presented his girl to other men including the relatives and the neighbors to get money. For this reason, at nights she slept with her daughter or stayed awake for watching her; and at daytime she put a padlock on her trousers zipper part especially when she went to school and kept the keys by herself. Therefore, the child's trousers were wetted several times and she sometimes urinated after cutting her trousers. When the padlock was thrown away three to four times, the patient had supplied new padlocks from a peddler. The patient had been treated in some other hospitals before and finally was hospitalized at our clinics and initiated antipsychotic medicine. The patient was discharged with relative improvement and has now been continuing the treatment with zuclopenthixol decanoate (once a week) for the last 2 years. This patient has been presented as a good example for the processes of concrete thinking and growing up familial problems in schizophrenia.