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Abby was watching a documentary on some of the horrors of the Vietnam War even when she saw the soldiers being blown up after stepping on land mines, she showed no emotional reaction or response. In this case abby is displayingsymptoms of'

A.catatonic stupor
B.blunted or flat affect
C.antisocial personality disorder
D.conversion disorde

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Abby is displaying symptoms of blunted or flat affect.

Step-by-step explanation:

Emotional blunting or flat affect is a psychiatric disorder which makes a person to lack reactions and emote with a blunt, flat or no emotion. They lack any visual or verbal expression of their emotion and just show a flat expression even to things which normally brings a lot of emotion.

Normally if a person watches a video of the pain and sufferings of the soldiers during a war, he/she will become very sad and depressive and will emote the same.

Since Abby has a blunted affect, she is not able to feel anything after watching a war video. This condition is associated with other major psychiatric illness like autism, schizophrenia etc.

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