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Final Exam
Mental Health Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |