Mental Health Disorders

Question 1

Affect

Answer 1

a persons feeling, moods, and emtions and the way the person demonstrates them

Question 2

anxiety

Answer 2

a vague uneasy feeling in response to stress

Question 3

anxiety disorders

Answer 3

a group of mental health disorders whose main symptom is anxiety, with fears and worries so disproprtionate to the situation as to the affect normal functioning

Question 4

bipolar and related disorders

Answer 4

a group of related brain disorders that cause unusual shifts in a persons mood, energy, and ability to function

Question 5

compulsion

Answer 5

the uncontrollable urge to perform an act

Question 6

Conduct disorder

Answer 6

a disorder that cause the person to repeatedly violate the personal or property rights of others and the basic expectations of society

Question 7

Delusion

Answer 7

a fixed, false belief, that is not based on reality

Question 8

depressive disorders

Answer 8

a group of disorders in which the client has sad, empty, or irritable moods accompanied by physical and thought changes that are severe enough to affect the clients ability to function

Question 9

Detoxification

Answer 9

a process of allowing an abused substance to exit the body naturally or of removing the substance from the body medically; the person being detoxified may go into drug withdrawl

Question 10

Disruptive impulse-control and conduct disorders

Answer 10

disorders in which the client displays difficult, disruptive, aggressive, or antisocial behaviours

Question 11

drug tolerance

Answer 11

the state in which the body gets accustomed to a substance, causing the individual to need largeer amounts of it to experience the same effect.

Question 12

drug withdrawl

Answer 12

a physical reaction that occurs when a person abusing a substance stops taking it.

Question 13

feeding and eating disorders

Answer 13

altered body images that lead to disturbances in eating behaviours and an abnormal concern with body weight and shape

Question 14

hallucinations

Answer 14

seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing or feeling something that isnt real

Question 15

major depressive disorder

Answer 15

a state of mind in which a person has severe feelings of worthlessness, self-blame, sadness, dissapointment, and emptiness that lasts for weeks and interfere with the person’s ability to perform activities of daily living; also known as clinical depression, although this term is not used anymore by physicians.

Question 16

Mental health

Answer 16

a state of mind in which the person copes with and adjusts to the stressors of everday living in socially acceptable ways

Question 17

mental health disorders

Answer 17

a disturbance in a persons ability to cope with or adjust to stress affecting the persons, thinking, moods, or behaviours and impairing functioning: also known as mental illness, mental disorder, emotional illness, or psychiatric disorder.

Question 18

Obsession

Answer 18

A persistant thought or desire

Question 19

obsessive compulsive and related disorders

Answer 19

mental health disorders characterized by recurrent obsessions and compulsions that interfere with a persons daily life and relationships.

Question 20

Panic

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an intense and sudden feeling of fear anxiety terror or dread for no obvious reason

Question 21

Paranoia

Answer 21

extreme suspicion abut a person or a situation

Question 22

personality disorders

Answer 22

a group of disorders involving rigid and socially unacceptable behaviours

Question 23

Psychotherapy

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a form of therapy in which a client explores, thoughts, feeling and behaviours with help and guidance from a mental health specialist

Question 24

Reactive Depression

Answer 24

A term that some health care providers use to describe normal reactions, such as feelings of loss and sadness in response to what a person has just experienced.

Question 25

remission

Answer 25

a period when the signs and symptoms of a disease lessen or dissapear

Question 26

repression

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the keeping fromt he concious mind unpleasent thoughts.

Question 27

schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Answer 27

an extremly complex group of mental disorders characterized by delusions, hallucinations disturbances in thinking and withdrawl from social activity.

Question 28

self-harm

Answer 28

inflicting harm on oneself in order to deal with feeling of anxiety, depression, numbness, loss of control, self-anger, or to regain emotional control over oneself.

Question 29

sleep wake disorders

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conditions in which repetitive disturbed sleep patterns lead to distress and impairment in that perosns daytime functioning.

Question 30

stigma

Answer 30

social shame associated with a partiular circumstnace, quality or person.

Question 31

substance related and addictive disorder

Answer 31

the deliberate misuse of, and inability to stop the abuse of the prescription medication, illegal drugs, alcohol, or other substances

Question 32

suicidal behaviour disorder

Answer 32

a disorder whose main trait is recurrent thought about or preoccupation with ending ones own life

Question 33

trauma and stressor- related disorders

Answer 33

anxiety disorders that can develope after an individual has experineced or witnessed a major trauma