Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.

The ability to accept yourself and others, to adapt and manage emotions, and to deal with the demands and challenges you meet.

The striving to become the best you can be.

A person's overall emotional evaluation of his or her worth.

A sense of yourself as a unique individual.

A person's ability to control their emotions and behaviors.

Seeing someone else as perfect, ideal , or more worthy than everyone else

Attributing your own feelings or faults to another person.

Extreme, harmful eating behaviors that can cause serious illness or death.

A strong irrational fear of something specific.

An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person.

A condition when tired feelings take over and lowers your ability to adapt to a situation.

Skills that help an individual handle stress in a healthful, effective way.

"Fight or Flight" stage in the body's stress response.

A condition that may develop after exposure to a terrifying event that threatened or caused physical harm to self or others.

The condition of feeling uneasy or worried about something.

A physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an injury or illness.