A psychiatric–mental health nurse working in a Veteran's Administration Medical Center is meeting with a military wife who is an Asian American
The woman is to be joining a support group for wives of veterans who have posttraumatic stress syndrome. When asking her to describe her husband's mental health problems, which response would the nurse most likely expect?
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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