You are working as a psychiatric nurse in a Veteran's Administration Medical Center. You are meeting with a military wife who is an Asian American prior to her joining a support group for wives of veterans who have Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
When you ask her to describe her husband's mental health problems, which of the following answers might you anticipate getting?
A) "Oh, he may seem depressed, but it is just a vitamin deficiency. It runs in his family."
B) "I know the war messed his mind up. He'll never be the same."
C) "Sometimes he hallucinates that he is back in Vietnam."
D) "He just stays to himself; he never talks to me about what is bothering him."
A
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