About Eight Months Ago,14-Year-Old Shelley Went on a Drastic Weight-Loss

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Multiple Choice

About eight months ago,14-year-old Shelley went on a drastic weight-loss diet that caused her to drop from 110 to 80 pounds.Although she is now dangerously underweight and under-nourished,she continues to think she looks fat.Her frustrated father recently forced her to eat a peanut butter sandwich,but Shelley immediately went to the bathroom and threw it all up.Shelley most clearly suffers from

• A) a fugue state.
• B) bulimia nervosa.
• C) dissociative disorder.
• D) anorexia nervosa.

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