Ella has experienced a prolonged and deep depression. She turned to legal prescriptions to treat her problem and became addicted. In Ella’s case, her primary disorder of depression was complicated with secondary, substance use disorder, which illustrates

a. how neurosis develops.
b. a conversion reaction.
c. an adjustment disorder.
d. how comorbidity occurs.


Ans: d. how comorbidity occurs.

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