Common Terms
The state of psychological well-being in which a person realizes their own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to their community.
What is Mental Health?
A term is used to describe a state of low mood or a mental disorder. A common serious mood disorder that causes severe symptoms, such as sadness and feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, lack of interest or pleasure in daily activities
What is Depression?
Strategies or tactics that can help you deal with stressful situations and lessen unpleasant emotions, thoughts, or behaviors.
What are Coping Skills?
Uncontrollable, irrational fears that lead people to altogether avoid specific things or situations that trigger intense anxiety. Such fears are out of proportion to the actual threats or dangers the situations pose and can interfere with work, school, and personal relationships. Phobias are diagnosable mental disorders.
What are Phobias?
A common, chronic, and long-lasting mental disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and/or behaviors (compulsions) that they feel the urge to repeat over and over again.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
The state of maintaining a balance of physical, mental, and emotional health. strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction and could be described as how you feel about yourself and your life.
What is Well-Being?
A mental disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, concentration, and the ability to carry out daily tasks. It’s formerly called manic depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Evidence or a sign of a health condition that the person with the condition notices themselves.
What are symptoms?
Serious and often fatal illnesses that are associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions
What are Eating Disorders?
A neurodevelopmental disorder that is marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
What is Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
The unpleasant feelings or emotions that you may have when you’re faced with stressors.
What is Mental Distress?
It’s a human body’s natural response to stress, and everyone experiences it. It’s a group of sensations that are generally unpleasant and mainly arise from being consciously worried about the future, or afraid of an actual situation.
What is Anxiety?
Refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions and recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
False perceptions involving your senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste), such as hearing nonexistent voices, seeing nonexistent things, and experiencing burning or pain sensations with no physical cause.
What are Hallucinations?
Fixed, false beliefs that conflict with reality and that indicate an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought.
What are Delusions?
behavioral or mental patterns that cause significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. They are diagnosed by a trained health professional, such as a doctor, clinical psychologist, or psychiatrist, using internationally established diagnostic criteria
What are mental illnesses?
A sudden experience of intense fear or psychological and physical discomfort that develops for no apparent reason and that includes physical symptoms such as dizziness, trembling, sweating, difficulty breathing, or increased heart rate.
What is a Panic Attack?
A normal emotional suffering experienced by a person from a loss of someone or something that’s important to them, such as the loss of a loved one
What is grief?
Intentional behavior that is considered harmful to oneself. It is most commonly regarded as direct injury of one’s own skin tissues usually without a suicidal intention, such as by scratching, biting, burning, cutting, or eating or drinking things that are poisonous.
What is Self-Harm?
Positive stress that can help you to accomplish goals
What is Eustress?
the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands
What is Resilience?
A disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, dangerous, or life-threatening event that is outside the range of usual human experience.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
The ability to identify, understand, and share other people’s emotions and thoughts, see things from their point of view, and be compassionate toward them.
What is Empathy?
A serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. This may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking (speech) and behavior that impairs daily functioning and can be disabling.
What is Schizophrenia?
a normal reaction your body has when changes occur, resulting in physical, emotional, and intellectual responses. It is your body’s response to anything that requires attention or action, and it helps adjust to new situations. We experience this when we are in a situation that we don’t feel we can manage or control.
What is stress?