Chapter 29 Caring For Persons With Mental Health Disorders Flashcards
Anxiety
A vague, uneasy feeling in response to stress
Compulsion
Repeating an act over and over again a ritual
Defense mechanism
And unconscious reaction that blocks unpleasant or threatening feelings
Delusion
A false belief
Delusion of grandeur
And exaggerated believe about one’s importance, wealth, power, or talents
Flashback
Reliving a trauma and thoughts during the day and then nightmares during sleep
Hallucination
Seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling something that is not real
Mental
Relating to the mine; something that exists in the mind or is done by the mind
Mental health
The person copes with and adjust to every day stresses in ways excepted by society
Mental health disorder
A disturbance in the ability to cope with or adjust to stress; behavior and function are impaired; mental illness, psychiatric disorder
Mental illness
Mental health disorder
Obsession
A current, unwanted thought, idea, or image
Paranoia
A diss order of the mind false beliefs and suspicion about a person or situation
Panic
And intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, tear, or dread
Phobia
An intense fear