Both Kurt and Magda Survived Airplane Crashes

question 82

Multiple Choice

Both Kurt and Magda survived airplane crashes. Both experience intrusive memories of the event as well as extreme anxiety and dissociative episodes. One might be diagnosed with acute stress disorder and the other with posttraumatic stress disorder if ____.

• A) one experiences anxiety and the other does not
• B) one relives the experience and the other does not
• C) one has had symptoms for more than thirty days and the other has not
• D) one experiences panic attacks and the other does not

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