Mrs. Johnson recently returned home after being gone for nearly five months. She has no memory associated with those five months. She most likely experienced a(n)
A) manic episode.
B) depressive attack.
C) dissociative fugue.
D) episode of schizophrenia.

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Mrs. Johnson's lack of memory for five months suggests she may have experienced a dissociative fugue, which is a type of dissociative disorder characterized by a sudden loss of memory for one's identity and past, accompanied by travel or wandering away from home. Manic episodes, depressive attacks, and episodes of schizophrenia do not typically involve such significant memory loss.

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