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Tirant22

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Lara is taken by her friends to the mental health crisis unit. She suffer from chronic alcoholism but has had no other previous history of mental problems. She says that she is frightened because she believes that bugs are crawling on her skin.
 
  The emergency room psychiatrist would be correct to hypothesize that Lara was
   manifesting ______.
   a. delirium tremens from alcohol withdrawal
   b. an acute schizophrenic episode
   c. the manic phase of a bipolar disorder
   d. a pseudo-epileptic seizure

Question 2

In childhood, boys are at ______ risk than girls for developing problems of anxiety and depression.
 
  a. less c. equal
   b. greater d. unknown



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

B



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