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Mental Health Term
Mental Health Terminology
Question | Answer |
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senile | loss of mental health, 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 a 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 due to losses in thinking processes such as memory and word-finding |
schizophrenia | a condition which usually occurs in young adults that presents with hallucinations 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 can occur in individuals as young as 40 |