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As a client's level of anxiety increases to a debilitating degree, the nurse should expect which of the following as a psychomotor behavior indicating a panic level of anxiety?

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Rationale: At a panic level of anxiety, psychomotor behaviors may include extreme actions such as suicide attempts or violence due to the client's inability to cope. Desperation and rage are emotional responses, disorganized reasoning is cognitive, and loss of contact with reality is a perceptual issue, none of which are primarily psychomotor behaviors.

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