Terms | Definitions |
Emotional Problems | Patterns of thinking of behavior that cause a person significant pain or prevent normal functioning |
Schuzophrenia | a mental illness, a condition of loosing touch with reality accompanied by reduced ability to function |
Addiction | Dependence on a substance, habit, or behavior |
Eating Disorder | abnormal food intake stemming from emotional causes and related to addiction |
Depression | the condition of feeling apathetic, hopeless, and withdrawn from others |
Insomnia | sleep abnormalities, including difficulty in falling asleep and wakefulness through the night |
Anxiety | an emotional state of high energy, with the stress response as the body's reaction to it |
Post-traumatic stress disorder | a reaction to stress such as wartime suffering or rape, arising after the event is over |
Anxiety attack | a sudden, unexplained episode of severe anxiety with symptons such as rapid heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, and nasua |
Phobia | an extreme irrational fear of an object or situation |
Obsessive- cumpolsive disorder | the uncontrollable need to perform repetitive acts |
Compulsions | irresistable impulses to perform senseless acts |
Guilt | the normal feeling that arrises from the conscience when a person acts against internal values |
Shame | the extreme feeling of guilt that arises when a person internalizes mistakes |
Therapy | any activity that has a healing- promoting effect |
Prozac | the brand name of one drug of a group of drugs used to restore normal brain chemistry in people with depression |
Codependent | a person who is so focused on the needs of others that the person's own needs are neglected |
Enabling | Misguided "helping" |
Attention- deficit / hyperactivity disorder | an inability to pay attention, often with hyperactivity and poor impulse control |
Learning disorder | any of a number of nerve or brain dysfunctions that interfere with normal learning |
Impulse control | the ability to wait and think before acting or speaking |
Hyperactivity | a condition of excessive activity |