Mental health conditions can be at times particularly difficult to identify. When there is a recent history or current
clinical evidence of:
• schizophrenia
• bipolar or depressive affective psychosis
• personality disorder
• paranoid disorder
• autism
• chronic alcohol abuse
• drug dependence or substance abuse
• eating disorders
• chronic neurosis (for example, chronic anxiety or depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias)
referral for psychiatric assessment and determination of prognosis, treatment required, work history, ability to
undertake activities of daily living, and social history is necessary.