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Final Exam
Mental Health Terminology
Question | Answer |
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Senile | loss of mental, physical, or emotional control in elderly |
Disorientation | Loss of recognition of time, place or person |
Paranoid | delusions of persecution |
Depression | deep sadness |
Psychosis | *major mental disorder *out of touch with reality |
Alcoholism | *dependent on alcohol *creates problems in personal life |
Amnesia | loss of memory |
Neurotic (Neurosis) | *emotional disorder *less serious than psychosis *very defensive *in touch with reality |
Anxiety | feeling of uneasiness or apprehension |
Psychosomatic | Showing physical symptoms with no physical illness |
Dementia | Difficulty functioning in daily life to losses in thinking process such as memory and word finding |
Schizophrenia | A condition which usually occurs in young adults that presents w/ halluciations and paranoid thinking |
Alzheimer's Disease | A chronic progressive memory loss and loss in functioning caused by changes in the brain. *Most common over age 65, but changes can occur in individuals as young 40 |