Question: Many disease patterns derive from environmental stressors that, if avoided, would result in much relief of symptoms. Of the following client presentations, which qualify as stress related? (Select all that apply) Choose at least one answer.
a. Wray, 52 years of age, suffers from chronic lower back pain so severe that he can no longer work. He has been dealing with intractable pain for 15 years with no hope of relief because the pain medication no longer works.
b. Tammie, 35 years of age, has suffered much as a child, abandoned by her mother and abused by multiple men in the family. She complains of chronic abdominal pain and edematous belly.
c. Pam, 46 years of age, is an overachiever and works 3 jobs to support the home in light of her husband's failing business. She suffers from debilitating joint and back pain and chronic post nasal drip.
d. Inez, 82 years of age, has been active all her life, living in the country and looking after a garden. Six months after moving into a long-term care facility, Inez experiences such decline in health that she is diagnosed as palliative. Because of her impending demise, the physician orders all 18