Stress Words
Physical, mental, and emotional reactions of your body to the challenges you face.
Stress
Process of using strategies to reduce the impact of the stress response and handle threatening situations in positive ways.
Stress Management
Moment of intense fear; often occurs without warning.
Panic Attack
Treatment method that focuses on changing how a person thinks and feels.
Therapy
who you are, including physical, social, and psychological features
Identity
Any factor that causes stress
Stressor
Ability to bounce back from traumatic or stressful events.
Resilience
Condition in which a person has difficulty paying attention and controlling behavior.
ADHD
Professional who diagnoses and treats people with mental health conditions.
Therapist
ideas or thoughts a person is confident are true
beliefs
Stress caused by repeated, long-lasting exposure to severe stressors, such as neglect and abuse, violence, or loss of a loved one.
Toxic Stress
Practice of taking an active role in protecting your own health; involves eating healthy and getting plenty of sleep and physical activity.
Self-Care
Condition in which a person has intense and lasting negative feelings that interfere with daily life; also known as clinical depression.
Major Depressive Disorder
Type of therapy in which all family members meet together with a therapist.
Family Therapy
how a person thinks or feels about someone or something
attitudes
Stress that causes negative feelings and harmful health effects.
Distress
Mental or emotional condition so severe that it interferes with daily functioning; also known as a mental disorder.
Mental Illness
Condition with periods of intense depression alternating with periods of manic moods.
Bipolar Disorder
Gatherings in which a therapist meets with a group of people who share a common issue.
Support Groups
how you feel about yourself
self-esteem
Body’s impulse to respond to threatening situations by fighting, fleeing, or freezing.
Fight-Flight-Freeze Response
Condition in which someone responds with extreme or unrealistic fear to certain situations, experiences, or objects.
Anxiety Disorder
Condition in which a person has irregular thoughts and delusions.
Schizophrenia
Type of treatment that involves staying in a healthcare facility for a period of time.
Inpatient Treatment
patterns of thoughts and feelings that decrease mental and emotional health
mental health conditions