Mental Health Vocabulary

Mood Disorder

• an illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living

• A disorder in which real or imagined threats prevent a person from enjoying life

• an individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling

• A serious disorder in which a person's perceptions lose their connection to reality

Impulsive

• identifying with and sharing another person's feelings

• the view you have of yourself

• acting without thinking or planning

• having confidence in yourself

Dealing with stress in a negative way

• eustress

• distress

• a disorder in which real or imagined threats prevent a person from enjoying life

• short-term ways of dealing with stress

Psychiatrist

• a serious disorder in which a person's perceptions lose their connection with reality

• medical doctor who specialized in treating psychological disorders/serious mental health problems

• a mental health professional who is trained and licensed by the state to perform therapy/counseling

• extreme tiredness caused by your mental state

Depression

• a prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness

• the body's response to the pressures of everyday life

• allows you to face challenges and move past them in a healthy way

• an individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling

Repression

• defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions

• defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious

• defense mechanism that transfers feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or neutral

• defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

Fatigue

• the beliefs and ideas that you are important

• extreme, irrational fears that restrict lifestyle

• having confidence in yourself

• extreme tiredness, exhaustion

Defense Mechanism

• short-term ways of dealing with stress

• a disorder in which real or imagined threats prevent a person from enjoying life

• the view that you have of yourself

• aches and pains and extreme tiredness of the body

Self-Esteem

• having confidence in yourself

• the view that you have of yourself

• acting without thinking or planning

• extreme tiredness, exhaustion

Resilience

• an illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living

• allows you to face challenges and move past them in a healthy way

• in individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling

• a prolonged feeling of happiness, hopelessness, and sadness