Definitions in Mental Health
Affective Dissorders
Anxiety Disorders
Personality Disorders
Psychoactive Drugs
100
The Medical Specialty concerned with the origin,diagnosis,prevention and treatment of mental health
What is Psychiatry
100
Mental disorder with feelings of deep sadness and despair
What is Depression
100
Distress caused by fear
What is anxiety
100
Total or partial inability to remember past experiences
What is amnesia
100
Drug derived from opium or a synthetic affects
What is Narcotic
200
A legal term for severe mental illness , present at the time a crime was committed.
What is Insanity
200
Pathologic fear or dread
What is Phobia
200
Inability to sleep
What is insomnia
200
Uncontrollable need to steal
What is Kleptomania
200
Agent that excites or strengthens functional activity
What is Stimulant
300
Disorder of perception,thought,emotion and behavior
What is Schizophrenia
300
A condition of severe depression,agitation, and paranoid delusions
What is Dysphoria
300
Occurring after and caused by trauma
What is Posttramatic
300
Withdrawn socially isolated
What is Chizoid
300
The capacity to become accustom to a stimulus or drug
What is Tolerance
400
Perception of an object or event where there is no such thing present
What is Hallucination
400
Mood disorder with hyperactivity,irritability and rapid speach
What is mania
400
Drug treatment of mental disorders
What is Physcopharmaco therapy
400
Person with anti-social personality disorder
What is sociopath
400
A natural substance in the brain that has the same effect as opium
What is Endorphin
500
Disturbance in thought processes,which move rapidly from one topic to another
What is Tangentiality
500
Passage of electric current through the brain to produce convulsions and treat persistent depression, mania, and other disorders
What is electroconvulsive therapy
500
Physcotherapy to build skills to deal with a effects of trauma and other areas of life
What is Cognitive Processing Therapy
500
Mental disorder in which part of an individuals personality is separated from the rest, leading to multiple personality
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
500
Agent that intensifies sensory perception
What is Psychedelic
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