The ataque in the emergency department — CASC cross-cultural assessment station

A 31-year-old woman who migrated three years ago is brought to the emergency department by her sister after an episode at a family gathering: she screamed, wept, trembled, fell to the floor and was briefly unresponsive. She recovered within minutes and is now calm but tearful. She tells you it was 'un ataque de nervios', that it happens when things at home become unbearable, and that her mother had the same. She does not want to be admitted and does not want her husband told.