Mental Health

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Andtidepressants

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Antidepressants- drugs are used to alleviate the symptoms of depression and are also sometimes used to treat other psychological disorders, including anxiety disorders, seasonal affective disorder, and some eating disorders.

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Affect

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1. Affect-A person’s affect is the expression of emotion or feelings displayed to others through facial expressions, hand gestures, voice tone, and other emotional signs such as laughter or tears.

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Antisocial personality disorder

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3. Antisocial personality disorder- also known as psychopathy, sociopathy, dissocial personality disorder, or dyssocial personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a diagnosis applied to persons who routinely behave with little or no regard for the rights, safety, or feelings of others.

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Anxiety

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4. Anxiety/ anxiety disorders- are a group of mental disturbances characterized by anxiety as a central or core symptom. Although anxiety is a commonplace experience, not everyone who experiences it has an anxiety disorder.

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Apathy

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5. Apathy- can be defined as an absence or suppression of emotion, feeling, concern or passion. Apathy is an indifference to things generally found to be exciting or moving.

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ADHD

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A chronic development disorder characterized by attention problems, including distractibility

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Autism

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A complex development disorder distinguished by difficulties with social interaction

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Behavior therapy

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An empirically based psychological treatment approach founded on the principles of operant conditioning

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Biofeedback

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Applied psychophysiology feedback is a patient guided treatment that teaches an individual to control muscle tension

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Bipolar disorder

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Known as manic depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by servers and unusual changes in energy level

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Body image

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Is a mental opinion or description that individuals have of their own physical appearance

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Cognitive behavior therapy

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An action oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and negative emotions

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Delusion

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Is a psychotic condition characterized by recurrent or persistent non bizarre delusions, without other obvious symptoms of mental illness

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Depression

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General name for a family of illnesses known as depressive disorder. As an illness, depression can affect not only the persons mood and infer thoughts of a person, but also the outwardly physical function of affected individual

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Ego

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Portion of the personality that imposes realistic limitation of the id

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Emotional intelligence

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Ability to perceive and constructively act on both ones own emotion and feelings of others

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Empathy

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The capacity to vicariously experience and understand the thoughts and feelings of another person by putting oneself in that persons place

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Extroversion

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A term used to characterize people who are typically outgoing friendly ex

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Forgetting curve

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The general predictable pattern of the process of forgetting learned information

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Id

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The id is the part of the personality that includes such basic biological impulses or drives as eating

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Impulse control disorder

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A psychological disorder characterized by the repeated inability to refrain from performing a particular action that is harmful either to oneself or others

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Inferior complex

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A psychological condition that exists when a persons feelings of inadequacy are so intense that daily living is impaired

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Introversion

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A commonly used term for people who are quiet, reserved, thoughtful, and self reliant and who tend to prefer solitary work and leisure activities

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Mania

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A description of the condition opposite depression in manic depressive psychosis or bipolar disorder. It is characterized by a mood of elation without apparent reason

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Mental imagery

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A picture created by the imagination with no visual stimulus required

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Narcissim

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Excessive preoccupation with self and lack of empathy for others

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Mental illness characterized by the recurrence of intrusive anxiety producing thoughts accompanied by repeated attempts to suppress these thoughts through the performance of certain irrational often ritualistic behaviors

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Panic disorder

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An acute feeling of intense fear

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Passive aggressive personality

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It’s main distinguishing feature is indirect resistance to the demands or expectations of others through stubbornness

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Placebo

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Substance with no known pharmacological value that are given to members of a control group in an experiment

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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A psychological disorder that develops in response to an extremely traumatic event that threatens a persons safety or life

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Psychosis

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A symptom of mental illness characterized by a radical change in personality and a disorder or diminished sense of objective reality

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Rapid eye movement

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Rapid eye movement. Sleep is also called active sleep because the EEG patterns in this stage are similar to the patterns during the awake stage

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Self esteem

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An important component of emotional health self esteem encompasses both self confidence and self acceptance

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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An I titian expectation that is confirmed by the behavior it elicits

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Superego

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In psychoanalytic theory the part of the human personality that represents a persons inner values and morals, AKA CONSCIENCE