A patient with schizophrenia refuses to take his medication because he believes he is not ill.What phenomenon most likely underlies this presentation?
A) The patient is unable to face having an illness and is in denial.
B) Stigma causes the patient to refuse to admit his mental illness.
C) The illness itself is preventing the patient from realizing he is ill.
D) Command hallucinations are instructing him to deny the illness.
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