# 35585 Diagnostic Skill
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Diagnostic_Skill_Application_I_Case_Studies.docxDiagnostic Skill Application I
For this assignment, you will work with two case studies.
The Case of Jenny
Jenny is a 29-year old single female who lives with her mother. She is bi-sexual but is not currently dating. Jenny was recently in a relationship with a man, and they lived together briefly. They parted amicably when they just did not seem to be enjoying being together. Jenny moved back in with her mother, Barbara, to allow her boyfriend to take in a roommate to cover her share of the rent. She works as a bank teller and makes a modest income. She felt moving back home would allow her to provide some financial help to her mother. Jenny’s mother raised her as a single parent. Jenny and Barbara have shared many ups and downs over the years. Things were never easy, but they always made it through. Barbara is becoming increasingly concerned that Jenny is giving up on life and needs to snap out of it.
Jenny: It's just been happening for a long time. It seems like it's been forever, but I guess it's been at least the last several months. I feel like my mom has been hounding me about stuff for a long time, so maybe it's been longer. I don't know, but I really try to go ... I really try, I felt like I tried to do so many different things to feel better, and I just can't feel better. It's just this dark cloud constantly follows me around, and no matter what I do, everything goes wrong. My mom thinks it's just so easy. Go out with your friends, or go out on a date, or you just need to be out around people, but I don't even know what I would say to people, because I just have no motivation to even be around them, so when you don't have motivation to be around people, what do you say? Sometimes I'm just too tired because I don't know how this is possible, but I'm in bed a lot. When I get home from work, I take a nap. It's, I don't know, usually until like eight o'clock.
Then I'll get up, and I'll try to eat a little something, but I never really feel all that hungry, and then what else is there to do? I just go back to sleep, but I still feel tired all the time, and it's tough for me to make it through the day. It seems like everything I try to do just doesn't work out, and everybody just tells me to, why don't you just go shopping, or why don't you do this, or you need to eat better, or you got to get out of bed, or you got to find something you enjoy doing, but I'm just not ... I just have no energy, and that's what they don't get. I just have no energy. It seems like a long time ago, I loved doing some things, and I loved going outdoors, and take walks, and I liked going out with my friends, but now, nothing. It seems like nothing's interesting, nothing's ... It just seems like things are hopeless, and the more effort I make, the worse things get.
I don't work on the weekend, so I end up sleeping a lot, and a lot of times I just think, "What's the point? Why even bother?" I don't know what I can do. I don't know, so I just think, why bother? I don't like when I think that, but I just can't help it, and I try to talk to my mom, but she just doesn't want to hear it, and she just thinks I'm ... I think the word lazy has come out of her mouth at least 50 times just this past week, so I just don't know what to do from here.
The Case of Marisol
Marisol is a 40-year-old single female from a tight-knit Puerto Rican family. She is employed full time as a data analyst for a technology company. She has steadily progressed in her career by working for relatively small companies where her role allowed her to work relatively independently. Unfortunately, working for small organizations was less stable financially, so she has been working for a larger company for the past four years. Interacting with a larger work group has challenged her comfort zone. She prefers to spend time with a network of close friends she has known most of her life, with whom she visits one-on-one. Her family lives in the area, and she sees them frequently. Her parents and older brother have always provided a support system and practical help. She enjoys quiet evenings alone or at the home of her brother and his family. Her friends and family privately wonder why she has never dated or wanted to travel.
Marisol: I don't know why it happens to me but anytime I go out with friends or do something related to work, I get so panicky and I get so anxious. I can't think. It's ridiculous. I know it's irrational. I know that, I don't know, maybe I don't know. I get all excited, I get panicky, I don't want to see people. I think they're all looking at me. I go to a function, I walk in and as soon as I walk in, I'm walking out the door. I get all flustered. I mean, it's hard to be like this. I don't want to be this way. I fear what people are gonna say about me, to me. It's something like I could walk out of a restaurant and the toilet paper is in my skirt or something and I got spinach in my teeth.
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