Joan Cannot Stop Thinking About Jumping Off a Tall Building

Multiple Choice

Joan cannot stop thinking about jumping off a tall building. This causes her a great deal of stress. To escape from these thoughts, Joan recites nursery rhymes over and over again. This seems to reduce the stress. For Joan, the thoughts of jumping off a building are

A) attempts at wish fulfillment
B) conditioned responses
C) compulsions
D) obsessions
E) dysthymia