Anxiety
It prepares people for action. It sharpens the senses, increases motivation for productivity, increases the perceptual field, and results in heightened awareness of the environment.
Mild Anxiety
Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it.
Denial
Is not considered a mental illness, but a maladaptive response.
Grief
Is the state of being "psychologically healthy, fully human, highly evolved, and fully mature.
Self-actualization
These are chemicals that convey information across synaptic clefts to neighboring target cells
Neurotransmitters
Individual is unable to focus on even one detail within the environment. Misperceptions are common, and a loss of contact with reality may occur.
Panic Anxiety
Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to oneself to another person.
Projection
This stage occurs when there is a prolonged exposure to the stressor to which the body has become adjusted.
Stage of Exhaustion
Is defined as a significant thought disturbances in which reality testing is impaired, resulting in delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or catatonic behavior.
Psychosis
This system plays an important role in human behavior through the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
Endocrine
The following are used by individuals to relieve anxiety and stressful situations
Coping Mechanisms
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors
Rationalization
During this stage, the responses of the flight-or-fight syndrome are initiated
Alarm Reaction Stage
Anxiety and grief have been described as two primary responses to:
Stress
The study of biological transmission of certain characteristics (physical and or behavioral from parent to offspring.
Genetics
The perceptual field is severely anxious individual is so greatly diminished and concentration centers on only one particular detail or on many extraneous details.
Severe Anxiety
Involuntary blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness.
Repression
"The state manifested by a specific syndrome which consists of all nonspecifically-induced changes within a biologic system.
Stress
Is defined as "maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal and internal environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are incongruent with local and cultural norms.
Mental Illness
This is called the "emotional brain". It is associated feelings of fear and anxiety; anger, rage, and aggression; love; joy, hope and sexuality and social behavior.
The limbic system
A psychiatric disturbance characterized by excessive anxiety that is expressed directly or altered through defense mechanisms.
Neurosis
The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral
Displacement
This period of grief-related emotions and behaviors is called.
Mourning
Is defined as "the successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms.
Mental Health
Is the study of the biological foundations of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes.
Psychobiology