Anglais p.2 Flashcards
Mindful of
To be mindful of something means to be really attentive to something, to be aware of something.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a way of training your mind to concentrate on the present, in order to feel calm and improve your mental state. It is also the practice of giving complete and non-judgmental attention to one’s present experience.
What does mindfulness focus on?
Mindfulness focuses awareness on breathing and encourages positive attitudes to achieve a healthy, balanced mental state.
Mindset
Mental state.
What does it mean to have a strong mindset?
To have a strong mindset means to be mentally strong.
Miss out on
To fail to use an opportunity to enjoy or get an advantage from something.
Move on to
To accept change, shift to.
Numb
To numb means to make someone unable to think, feel, or react normally because of something that shocks or upsets him/her.
Example: To numb the pain.
Emotional Numbness
To make someone unable to think, feel, or react normally because of something that shocks or upsets him/her.
What are signs of emotional numbness?
Do you feel an all-encompassing sense of emptiness? Do you feel distant and cut off from other people? Have you lost interest in things that you used to enjoy?
Nurture
To raise, to care for.
O.C.D.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions or both that cause significant distress.
Open up
To share one’s feelings.
Outburst
A sudden and often violent release, outpouring, or eruption.
Outlet
A way in which emotion or energy can be expressed or made use of.
Outweigh
To exceed in value, importance, influence.
Overcome
To succeed in controlling, to get over, to master or defeat.
Overreact
To react or respond to something more strongly than is necessary.
Overstate
To exaggerate; to state too strongly.
Overwhelm
To have a strong emotional effect on; to burden excessively.
Being emotionally overwhelmed means to be completely submerged by your thoughts and emotions.
Overwhelming
Very huge, very powerful, overpowering.
Overworked
Very busy; having to work beyond their capacity or strength.
P.T.S.D.
PTSD is an anxiety disorder that may develop after exposure to a traumatic event.
Symptoms of PTSD
Reliving, avoidance, hypervigilance, hyperarousal.
Pace
To pace means to regulate the speed of.
Paranoid
Extremely or unreasonably distrustful.
Pave the way for
To make something possible, to be leading to.
Physiological arousal
Aspects of arousal shown by physiological responses, such as increases in blood pressure.
Pointless
Without relevance or force; meaningless; useless.
Prejudice
Any opinion or feeling held before careful thought.
Prevalence
The fact that something is very common or happens often.
Psyche
The mental or psychological structure of a person.
Put at risk
To jeopardize, endanger.
Example: putting his life at risk.
Quest
Pursuit, search.
Reach
To get to or arrive at.
Example: to reach a goal.
Reach out
To try to communicate with a person or group to help or involve them.
Reap benefits
To get something good as a result of your own actions.
Recover
To return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.
Reexperiencing - Reliving
Re-experiencing is the most typical symptom of PTSD.
Refocus
To focus again or in a different way.
Relate to others
To have the ability to understand the way people feel, to empathize.
Release
To liberate or let go of.
Relevant
Connected with the matter at hand; pertinent.
Reliable
Capable of being relied on; dependable.
Relieve
To alleviate, to lessen, to reduce pressure.
A relief = ‘un soulagement’.
Reluctant
To be unwilling to do something; to be hesitant.
Rely on
To put trust in, to depend confidently on.
Resilience
The ability to bounce back from adversity.
Respondents
Persons who answer a request for information.
Restlessness
Inability to remain quiet, agitation.
Resume
To continue doing; to start again after a pause.
Rough
Rough means hard, tough, difficult.
Self-awareness
Good knowledge and understanding of yourself.
Self-centered
Thinking about or interested in oneself only; selfish.
Self-esteem
A term used to describe a person’s overall sense of self-worth or personal value.
Self-harm
The practice of cutting or otherwise wounding oneself.
Sensible
To have common sense, to be reasonable.
Sensitive
To be readily or easily affected by stimuli.
Setbacks
Obstacles, difficulties.
Severity
Intensity or sharpness, as of cold or pain.
Shorten
To reduce, decrease.
Shrink
To become smaller.
Side effect
Any effect of a drug or medicine that is in addition to its intended effect.
Significant
Meaningful, important, relevant.
Sink
To go to the bottom, to become engulfed.
Examples: to sink into oblivion, to sink into depression.
Social skills
Skills used to communicate with others daily in various ways.
Social stigma
The disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics.
Stalk
To follow someone without being seen or noticed.
Stance
A way of thinking about something; position, point of view.
Stand
To successfully accept or bear something that is unpleasant.
Stand up to
To deal effectively with a person.
State-of-the-art
The best available because it has been made using the most modern techniques.
Step back
To put things into perspective; to take some distance.
Stick to
To remain faithful to, not to move or digress from.
Succeed in
To achieve something that you have been aiming for.
Suitable
Acceptable or right for someone or something.
Support
To agree with and give encouragement to someone or something.
Sustainable development
Economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources.
Sustained
Continuing for a long time; prolonged.
Tackle
To work with or begin work on something to handle or solve it.
Tailor
To make or adapt to suit a special need or purpose.
Tailor-made
Specially made for a particular purpose.
Take for granted
To assume without questioning; to fail to properly notice or appreciate.
Targeted treatment
A treatment that is really adapted to the patient’s needs.
Tease
To irritate, bother someone with jokes or playful words.
Toughen up
To become stronger; to become more determined.
Trial
A test, an experimental attempt.
Tricky
Deceptive, uncertain, or difficult to deal with.
Trigger
To set in motion, provoke, prompt.
Turn a blind eye to something
To ignore something that you know is wrong.
Example: Management often turn a blind eye to bullying.
Unbearable
Not endurable.
Unbiased
Not biased or prejudiced; impartial.
Unlikely
Not likely to be or occur; improbable.
Unwilling to
Reluctant to.
Upsetting
Mentally or emotionally disturbing.
V.R.E.T.
Virtual Reality Exposure therapy is a method of psychotherapy using virtual reality technology to treat patients with anxiety disorders.
Vicarious
Felt or enjoyed by imagining that one is participating in the experience of others.
Vicarious trauma
Indirect trauma that can occur when exposed to difficult or disturbing images and stories second-hand.
Volunteer
To offer to do something that you do not have to do.
Wake-up call
Something that serves to alert a person to a problem, danger, or need.
Example: For many, this wake-up call leads them in search of a new challenge.
Wallow in self-pity
To feel sorry for oneself.
Weaken
To reduce in intensity or effectiveness.
Wear down
To overcome or be overcome gradually by persistent effort.
Weigh the pros and cons
To consider arguments for and against something.
Willingness
Eagerness, enthusiasm, readiness.
Work through
To manage, to deal with, to resolve.
Worthlessness
The state or quality of being unimportant or useless.
Worthwhile
To feel worthwhile means to feel good enough or important enough.
Catharsis
The release of strong, pent-up emotions.
