Zehra Is Being Treated for Multiple Mental Health Problems

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Zehra is being treated for multiple mental health problems.She has suffered from depression for years,but recently,she has also developed obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifests as an intense fear of germs.It is so severe,that she CANNOT leave her house for fear of being contaminated with foreign germs,and so technically she has agoraphobia too.Psychologists would say that Zehra is showing

• A) post-traumatic stress disorder.
• B) comorbidity.
• C) exacerbating symptom development.
• D) conflicting diagnoses.

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