A patient has been admitted with disorganized type schizophrenia. The nurse asks the pa-tient how he is feeling, and he responds, "Everybody picks on me. They frobitz me." The best response for the nurse to make would be:
a. "That"s really too bad that you are being treated that way."
b. "Who do you mean when you say ‘everybody'?"
c. "What difference does frobitzing make?"
d. "Why do they frobitz?"
ANS: B
This response will help clarify the patient's thinking and change the focus from global to spe-cific. In this situation, sympathizing with the patient is a nonproductive response. The re-maining options appear to accept the neologism thus supporting the patient's delusional thinking.
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