The majority of people function in a relatively healthy manner, but their functioning capacity can be diminished by:
a. lack of a support system.
b. periods of crisis.
c. nutritional deficits.
d. a physical disease process.
B
Periods of crisis can decrease functional capacity, moving a person toward the illness end of the continuum.
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