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H & F Term 11
Mental/Emotional Health - Chapter 2, 3, & 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |