Ch. 41 Mental Health Disorders Flashcards
Addiction
a chronic disease involving substance-seeking behaviors and use that is compulsive and hard to control despite the harmful effects
Anxiety
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or fear about an event or situation
Compulsion
An over-whelming urge to repeat certain rituals, acts, or behaviors
Coping
Strategies to manage stress and reduce negative emotions caused by stress
Defense mechanism
An unconscious reaction that blocks unpleasant or threatening feeling
Delusion
A false belief
Delusion of grandeur
An exaggerated belief about one’s importance, fame, wealth, power, or talents
Delusion of persecution
A false belief that one is being mistreated, abused, or harassed
Detoxification
the process of removing toxic substance from the body
Flashback
Reliving a trauma over and over in thoughts during the day and in nightmares during sleep
Hallucination
Seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, or tasting something that is not real
Mental Health
Involves a person’s emotional, psychological, and social well-being
Mental Health Disorder
A serious illness that can affect a person’s thinking, mood, behavior, function, and ability to relate to others; psychiatric disorder
Obsession
A frequent, upsetting, and unwanted thought, idea, or image
Panic
An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, or dread
Panic
An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, or dread
Personality
The set of attitudes, values, behaviors, and traits of a person
Phobia
An intense fear of something that has little or no real danger
Psychosis
A condition that affects the mind and causes a loss of contact with reality
Stress
The response or change in the body caused by any emotional, psychological, physical, social, or economic factor
Stressor
The event or factor that causes stress
Suicide
To end one’s life on purpose
Suicide contagion
Exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one’s family, one’s peer group, or through media reports of suicide
Withdrawal syndrome
The physical and mental response after stopping or severely reducing the use of a substance that was used regularly
