Carol Symptoms Case Study

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Carol symptoms are not cause by another medical condition. She does not have social anxiety disorder, after facing the gunman they went to security to report the situation rather than fear of being judge in public for informing the incident. Carol does not have adjustments disorder because the adjustment disorder are anxiety or depression generally during stressful life events. Furthermore, Carol does not have somatic symptom because her health is functioning well and no identifiable medical condition most importantly she is not seeking any attention. Illness anxiety disorder is also not a cause for her since she does not fear that she has serious physical symptoms. Dissociative disorder are lose sense of the reality of the external world in

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