You Have Advised a Patient to Discontinue Use of Antianxiety

Multiple Choice

You have advised a patient to discontinue use of antianxiety drugs. After two weeks, your patient calls to complain that his anxiety symptoms are now worse than before he started to take the drug. You tell the patient that his feelings are a predictable response to discontinuing antianxiety medication. In fact, he is experiencing what is called

A) addiction.
B) tolerance.
C) rebound anxiety.
D) relapse.