MCQ Psychiatry Answer 44

The correct answer is B.

The reaction was precipitated by a stressful event that would cause anyone to experience a severe and intense emotional response. The symptoms occurred within 3 months of the event and lasted for less than 6 months after the trauma, all corresponding to the diagnosis of adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood.

Acute stress disorder (choice A) and post-traumatic stress disorder (choice E) both require that the person reexperience the traumatic event in wakeful or dream states and the presence of dissociative symptoms.

This is not a major depressive disorder (choice C) because her symptoms are not of psychotic proportion and there is a clear precipitating stimulus.

Panic disorder without agoraphobia (choice D) is incorrect because the panic episodes are uncued and not the response to an environmental stressor.

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