Without Success,Maxine Spends Hours Each Day Trying to Suppress Intrusive

question 130

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) agoraphobia.

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