Patient with history of anxiety for past year

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The provider is seeing a patient with history of anxiety for the past year. The patient reports constant worry, easy startle, worry before falling asleep and intrusive thoughts keeping her awake for several hours each night, rarely leaving the house, irritability, difficulty concentrating, feeling constantly like something bad is going to happen, and easy fatigue. The APRN notes that when the patient is asked about trauma the patient crosses her arms and says, "I don't want to talk about that, next question". When writing the diagnostic formulation, which of the following is most accurate? Group of answer choices Give a diagnosis of major depressive disorder with a rule out diagnosis of PTSD Give a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder with a rule out/differential of PTSD Give a diagnosis of unspecified anxiety disorder as there is not information to make a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder List the diagnosis as PTSD as this is the most likely diagnosis given the patient's reluctance to discuss trauma and other symptoms consistent with PTSD.

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