Chapter 45 Flashcards
Anxiety
A vague uneasy feeling in response to stress
Affect
Feelings and emotions
Compulsion
Repeating an act over and over again
Conscious
Awareness of the environment and experiences the person knows what is happening and can control thoughts and behavior
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
Delusion of persecution
A false belief that one is being mistreated abused or harassed
Emotional illness
Mental illness
Psychiatric disorder
Mental disorder
A disturbance in the ability to cope with or adjust to stress behavior and function are impaired
Flashback
Reliving a trauma and thoughts during the day and in nightmares during sleep
Hallucination
Seeing hearing smelling or feeling something that is not real
Mental
Relating to the mind something that exists in the mind or is done by the mind
Mental health
The person copes with and adjusts to everyday stresses in ways excepted by society
Obsession
A recurrent unwanted thought idea or image
Panic
And intense and sudden feeling of fear anxiety terror or dread
Paranoia
A disorder of the mind false beliefs and suspicion about a person or situation
Personality
The set of attitudes values behaviors and traits of a person
Phobia
An intense fear
Psychosis
A state of severe mental impairment
Stress
The response or change in the body caused by an emotional physical social or economic factor
Stressor
The event or factor that causes stress
Subconscious
Memory past experiences and thoughts of which the person is not aware they are easily recalled
Suicide
To kill oneself
Suicide contagion
Exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one’s family once pier group or media reports of suicide
Unconscious
Experiences and feelings that cannot be recalled
Withdrawal syndrome
The person’s physical and mental response after stopping are severely reducing the use of a substance that was used regularly
