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Mental Health Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alcoholism | dependant on alcohol- creates problems in personal life |
| amnesia | loss of memory |
| anxiety | a feeling of uneasiness |
| Alzheimer's Disease | progressive memory loss and loss in functioning caused by changes in the brain |
| dementia | difficulty functioning in daily life due to losses in thinking processes, such as memory and word-finding |
| depression | deep sadness |
| disorientation | loss of time, place or person |
| neurotic | emotional disorder, defensive, in touch with reality |
| paranoid | delusions of persecution |
| psychosis | major mental disorder, out of touch with reality |
| psychosomatic | showing physical symptoms with no physical illness |
| schizophrenia | a disorder with hallucinations and paranoid thinking |
| senile | loss of physical, mental or emotional control of the elderly |