General Health
Defense Mechanisms
Disorders
Categories
Random Left-Overs
100
choosing the right foods / avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs / taking part in a regular exercise program / learning how to handle stress / getting along well with others
What are Good Health Habits?
100
Shifting emotion from one person or situation to another
What is displacement?
100
Extreme, irrational fears that restrict lifestyle.
What is phobia?
100
When a person experiences extreme or prolonged emotions or mood changes that he or she cannot control.
What are Mood Disorders?
100
A defense mechanism that involves blaming someone or something else.
What is projection?
200
An overall state of well-being or total health.
What is wellness?
200
making excuses instead of admitting mistakes
What is rationalization?
200
When you lose interest in life and no longer find enjoyment in anything you do.
What is depression?
200
Mental disorders characterized by extreme feelings of anxiety or fear.
What are Anxiety Disorders?
200
your physical response to change and a normal part of being alive
What is stress?
300
Heredity, environment, available health care.
What are: factors that affect your health?
300
behaving as you did in an earlier, less stressful time
What is regression?
300
a severe mental disorder in which people lose contact with reality
What is schizophrenia?
300
includes liking who you are and accepting yourself.
What is Mental/Emotional Health?
300
stress that interferes with your life and makes you unhappy or sick
What is distress?
400
Keeping yourself and the place you live and work clean so you stay healthy
What is hygiene?
400
blocking out stressful thoughts
What is repression?
400
Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors interfere with daily life.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? (OCD)
400
Involves getting along with others.
What is Social Health?
400
the way you feel about yourself, or how you value yourself
What is self-esteem?
500
The unique combination of feelings, thoughts, and behavior that makes you different from everyone else
What is personality?
500
not recognizing an unpleasant reality.
What is denial?
500
Going back and forth between very good moods and bad moods or depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
500
Includes total care of your body.
What is Physical Health?
500
the view you have of the unique person you are.
What is self-concept?
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