A client is admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit for treatment of obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with:
A. physical signs and symptoms with no physiologic cause.
B. apprehension.
C. inability to concentrate.
D. repetitive thoughts and recurring, irresistible impulses.
Ans: D. repetitive thoughts and recurring, irresistible impulses.
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