Without Success, Maxine Spends Hours Each Day Trying to Suppress

question 54

Multiple Choice

Without success, Maxine spends hours each day trying to suppress intrusive thoughts that she might have forgotten to lock her house when she left for work. Her experience is most symptomatic of

• A) panic disorder.
• B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• C) generalized anxiety disorder.
• D) a histrionic personality disorder.

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