A client stays to the nurse, "Everything makes me anxious now." The nurse knows that this free-floating anxiety is a common theme in:
1. OCDs.
2. Generalized anxiety disorders.
3. Phobias.
4. Dissociative identity disorders.
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Rationale: Usually, clients with generalized anxiety disorders have anxiety that is not related to a specific stimulus. Clients with phobias, dissociative identity disorders, and OCDs have anxiety related to a stimulus.
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