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A 24-year-old man avoids parties, will not eat in the staff cafeteria, cannot bring himself to ask a shop assistant for help, and has turned down a promotion because it involved chairing meetings. He has completed a full course of cognitive behavioural therapy with a psychologist with little change and asks to try medication. He has moderate persistent asthma treated with budesonide and salbutamol and was admitted with bronchospasm two years ago. He drinks no alcohol and takes no other medicines. Which one of the following should be prescribed?
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