Chapter 53 Mental Health Disorders

Quiz 13

Addiction

A chronic disease involving substance-seeking behaviors and use that is compulsive and hard to control despite the harmful

Anxiety

A feeling of worry, nervousness, or fear about an event or situation

Compulsion

An over-whelming urge to certain ritual, acts, or behaviors

Coping

Stategies to manage stress and reduce negative emotions caused by stress

Defense Mechanism

An unconscious reaction that blocks unpleasant or threatening feelings

Delusion

A false belief

Delusion of grandeur

An exaggerated belief about one’s importance, fame, wealth, power, or talents

Delusion of persecution

A false belief that one is being mistreated, abused, or harassed

Detoxification

The process of removing a toxic substance from the body

Drug addiction

A strong urge or craving to use a substance; the person cannot stop stop using it; tolerance develops

Flashbacks

Reliving a trauma over and over and over in thoughts during the day and in nightmare during sleep

Hallucination

Seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, or tasting something that is not real

Mental Health

Involves a person’s emotional, psychological and social well-being

Mental health disorder

A serious illness that can affect a person’s thinking, mood, behavior, function, and ability to relate to others; psychiatric disorder

Obsession

A freuend, upsetting, and upsetting thought, idea, or image

Panic

An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, or dread

psychosis

A condition that affects the mind and causes a loss of contact with reality

Tolerance

Needing more of a drug for the same effect

Withdrawal syndrome

The physical and mental response after stopping or severely reducing the use of a substance that was used regularly