The Nursing Instructor Is Teaching About the DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria

Multiple Choice

The nursing instructor is teaching about the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for depersonalization-derealization disorder. Which student statement indicates a need for follow-up instruction?

A) "Clients with this disorder can experience emotional and/or physical numbing and a distorted sense of time."
B) "Clients with this disorder can experience unreality or detachment with respect to their surroundings."
C) "During the course of this disorder, individuals or objects are experienced as dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, or visually distorted."
D) "During the course of this disorder, the client is out of touch with reality and is impaired in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning."