Immediately After a Chronic Illness Is Diagnosed

Immediately after a chronic illness is diagnosed,

A) patients are in a state of crisis where they find their habitual ways of coping do not work and anxiety, fear, and depression take over.
B) patients are in a state of crisis.
C) patients find their habitual ways of coping with problems do not work.
D) patients begin to develop a sense of how the chronic illness will alter their lives right away.
E) anxiety, fear, and depression often take over.