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ADHD

A condition in which someone is often in a state of activity or excitement and unable to direct their attention towards what they are doing

Acceptance

When a person finally comes to terms with what they are experiencing

Accurate

Carefully precise

Achieve

To perform successfully

Achievement

Successful accomplishment

Acknowledge

To recognize the existence of

Actual

Real, existing

Actually

In fact, in reality

Address

To deal with

Adversity

Life's difficulties

Aim

To intend

Alienated

Isolated

Alleviate

To make easier to endure

Altruistic

Unselfishly concerned for

Appeal

To exert an attraction

Assess

To evaluate

Assumption

A supposition

To assume

To suppose

Attention span

The interval during which an person can concentrate

Avoidance

The action of keeping away from or not doing something

To be aware

To be conscious of

Bear

To tolerate, to endure

Unbearable

That cannot be endured, suffered through, or tolerated

Belittle

To think of or cause others to think of something as less important than appearances indicate

Beyond help

To be at a point where nothing can be done to make things better

Biased

Partial, prejudiced

Binge on

To indulge in an activity (eating, drinking, taking drugs) to excess

To blame

To hold someone responsible for

Blunted emotions

Being unable to feel emotions, to become numb, desensitized

Emotional blunting

A term used to describe a person's limited emotional reactivity

Bounce back

To recover quickly, to rebound

Bully

A person who harasses, intimidates or persecutes people

Bully-proof

To make resistant to harassment

Bullying

The use of force and intimidation to harass/ torment people. It is the repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group. Bullying can involve verbal abuse, physical abuse, threats...

Come to term with

To start to accept and deal with a difficult situation

Compassion fatigue

The physical and mental exhaustion and emotional withdrawal experienced by those who care for sick or traumatized people over an extended period of time

To cope with

To deal with

COPING MECHANISMS/ COPING SKILLS/ COPING STRATEGIES:

Adaptive strategies you develop to make efforts to successfully deal with a difficult situation

Avoidance/escape coping

Coping mechanism characterized by the effort to avoid dealing with a stressor

Cornestone

The foundation on which something is developed

Crave

To strongly desire

Critical

Crucial

Cure

To rid of an illness

Currently

At the present time

Cyberbullying

Online harassment

Catharsis

The release of strong, pent-up (repressed) emotions

Daunting

Intimidating, frightening

Deceive

To fool someone into doing something

Dedicated to

Wholly committed to something (ideal, political cause, personal goal)

Defeat

To overcome in a contest

Denial

A defense mechanism in which a person refuses to believe in the existence of something

Desensitization

A treatment or process that diminishes emotional responsiveness to a negative, aversive or positive stimulus after repeated exposure to it

Deserve

To be worthy of

Undeserved

Not merited

Detrimental

Harmful, damaging

Diagnose

To determine the identity of a disease by an examination

Distracted

Unable to concentrate

Downplay

To minimize

Downside

A disadvantage

Dread

To fear greatly

Ease

Facility

Effectiveness

The degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result

Efficient

Which produces the expected result, which works

Embody

To be an example of

To set emotional boundaries

To manage to separate your feelings from another's feelings

An empath

Who feels what another person is feeling at a deep emotional level

Emphasize

To stress a point

Empowerment

The process of becoming stronger and more confident

To enhance

To improve

Eventually

Finally

Exhausted

Greatly fatigued

Fight or flight response

The physiological reaction that occurs in the presence of something mentally or physically terrifying. This response is triggered by the release of hormones that prepare your body to either stay and deal with a threat or to run away to safety.

To fit in

To feel that you belong to a particular group and are accepted by that group

To fix

To repair

Fulfilling

Rewarding, satisfying

Gender gap

A difference between the way men and women are treated in society, or between what men and women do and achieve

To go through

To endure, to suffer, to experience

To get through

To get over difficulties

Grateful

Thankful

Goundbreaking

Innovative, revolutionary

The growth

The development

Handy

Conveniant

To harass

To persecute

Hazards

Risks, obstacles, dangers

Hazardous

Dangerous

To heighten

To intensify

To highlight

To emphasize

Hyperarousal

A primary symptom of PTSD that involves being easily startled

Hypervigilance

The state of being highly or abnormally alert to potential danger or threat

To immerse oneself in

To be absorbed in

To be immune

To be protected from a disease

To inhibit

To restrain

Irrelevant

Not pertinent

To kick in

To become activated

To lessen

To reduce

To let go of

To stop holding something

To be at loss

Not to know what to think or do

Meaningful

Profound, significant

To meet the requirements

To completely satisfy the conditions required for something

To be mindful of

To be aware of