D Baeldi's Case Study: J. D. Baldi

J.D. Baldi is a 38 year old Caucasian mother who came into the agency with concerns about her symptoms of depression and anxiety. She is the oldest of the three daughters that her mother Diana and her father Salvatore had during their twenty-five year marriage. Salvatore’s job caused him to travel a lot, being away for two weeks at a time and then having a weekend at home, which meant that he missed a lot of J.D.’s activities and events. J.D. was still very close to him and enjoyed spending time with him more than her mother, who always nitpicked J.D. or told her how she could have done something better. This same form of criticism did not seem to happen between her mother and her younger sisters and J.D. began to feel inadequate. Diana and Salvatore grew apart during the course of their marriage and finally divorced when J.D. was 23, but she reports having a wonderful childhood. Salvatore married Carla two years after his divorce to Diana. Carla has two children from a previous marriage and J.D. became close to the newly formed family. However, when it was revealed that Salvatore was having an affair with Carla through much of his marriage to Diana about a year after the wedding, J.D. was devastated.

's case. There is a history of thyroid cancer and overactive thyroid in her family that is a huge concern for J.D. She is in the process of attempting to find an endocrinologist that would monitor her thyroid functioning as well as her Type 2 diabetes since, even with her Glumetza (metformin) at 1000 milligrams twice a day, her blood sugar levels have been running high. J.D. also suffers from degenerative back disease which causes her daily pain as well as causing her back to spasm to the point where she cannot walk. However, she had weaned herself off of all of her pain medication because she believed she was taking too many and they were not