In a recent court hearing, a psychiatrist, known as Dr A, expressed regret to the families of six murder victims, killed by her former patient Joel Cauchi. The court is investigating the decision to wean Cauchi off his schizophrenia medication before he committed the attacks at a Sydney shopping center on April 13, 2022. Dr A treated him from 2012 to 2020 and described her emotional devastation and the complexities of his diagnosis, which evolved from chronic paranoid schizophrenia to first episode schizophrenia, raising questions about relapse risks.
"I would like to say to the victims, their families, Joel Cauchi's parents, friends and everybody, that I offer my sincere apologies to you all..."
"No psychiatrist in the world would wish on themselves for this trauma to happen."
"There was some ambiguity around whether the new diagnosis meant Cauchi's schizophrenia was chronic and susceptible to the same rates of relapse."
"In my mind, he was suffering a long episode of first episode schizophrenia..."
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