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Mental/Emotional Health - Chapter 2, 3, & 4

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reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior   emotion  
happiness, sadness, anger, and fear   primary emotions  
love, guilt, and shame   learned emotions  
a way of dealing with an uncomfortable or unbearable feeling or situation   coping strategies  
coping strategies that help you to protect yourself from difficult feelings   defense mechanisms  
refusing to recognize an emotion or problem   denial  
making up for weaknesses in one area by exelling in another   compensation  
making excuses for actions or feelings   rationalization  
reacting in a way opposite to the way you feel   reaction formation  
putting your own faults onto another person   projection  
returning to immature behaviors to express emotions   regression  
the response of your body and mind to being challenged or threatened   stress  
positive stress   eustress  
negative stress   distress  
an event or situation that causes stress   stressor  
4 types of stressors   major life changes, catastrophes, everyday problems, and environmental problems  
initial reaction of the body to stress   fight-or-flight response  
stages of stress   alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage  
an illness that affects the mind and reduces a person's ability to fuction   mental illness  
generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, panic attack, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder   anxiety disorders  
bipolar and dpression   mood disorders  
severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior   schizophrenia  
display rigid patterns of behavior that make it difficult to get along with others   personality disorder  
mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food   eating disorder  
person who doesn't eat enogh food to maintain a healthy weight   anorexia nervosa  
uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging, or removing, the food from their bodies   bulimia  
uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food   binge eating disorder  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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