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Wellness-Vocab.
Wellness
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mental/Emotional Health | Ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life |
| Resilient | Ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis |
| Self-Esteem | How much you value, respect and feel confident about yourself |
| Competence | Having enough skills to do something |
| Hierarchy of Needs | Ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need to reach your highest potential |
| Self-Actualization | To strive to be the best you can |
| Personality | Complex set of characteristics that make you unique |
| Character | The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves |
| Integrity | A firm observance of core ethical values |
| Constructive Criticism | Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement |
| Emotions | Signals that tell your mind and body how to react |
| Hormones | Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells |
| Hostility | The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior |
| Empathy | The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels |
| Defense Mechanisms | Mental processes that protect individuals from strong/stressful emotions or situations |
| Perception | The act of becoming aware through the senses |
| Stress | The reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and commands |
| Psychosomatic Response | Physical reaction that results from stress rather than an injury or illness |
| Chronic Stress | Stress associated with long term problems that are beyond a person's control |
| Closure | Acceptance of a loss |
| Coping | Dealing successfully with different changes in your life |
| Mourning | Act of showing sorrow or grief |
| Traumatic Event | Any event that has a stressful impact sufficient to overwhelm your normal coping strategies |
| Anxiety | Condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen |
| Depression | Prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness |
| Apathy | Lack of strong feeling |
| Mental Disorder | An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing him or her from leading a happy, healthful, productive life. |
| Anxiety Disorder | Condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control |
| Eating Disorder | Extreme, harmful eating behaviors that can cause serious illness or death |
| Stigma | Mark of shame/disapproval that results in an individual being shunned/rejected by others |
| Mood Disorder | Illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living |
| Schizophrenia | Mental disorder where the person loses contact with reality |
| Personality Disorder | Unable to regulate with your emotions |
| Suicide | Intentionally taking one's own life |
| Psychiatrist | Physician who diagnoses and treats mental disorders and can prescribe medications |
| Psychologist | Professional who diagnoses and treats emotional/behavioral disorders (some can prescribe medications) |
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