A patient tells a nurse, "I am a weak person.". The patient feels inadequate and vulnerable and states often feeling helpless and frightened. The nursing diagnosis most likely to fit this situation is:
a. personal identity disturbance.
b. chronic low self-esteem.
c. personality fusion.
d. depersonalization.
B
Self-esteem disturbance is defined as having a negative self-evaluation or negative feelings about self or self-capabilities, which may be directly or indirectly expressed.
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