Mental Health
Emotion Terms
Stress
Mental Illness
Disorders
100

This term is how you see and feel about yourself.  

Self Esteem 

100

Treating yourself with kindness and understanding.

Self-Compassion

100

This is an unavoidable challenge faced with your physical, mental, and emotional reactions.  

stress

100

Mental illness occurs when a mental condition does not go away.  It is so severe that it interferes with daily tasks.  It is also known as this term

mental disorder

100

A mental illness that occurs during different seasons of the year, and caused by different environmental influences.

Seasonal Affective Disorder

200

This internal factor is how you view yourself.  Using it affects your self esteem, is encouraging and supportive to a positive attitude.  

self-talk

200

an emotion that means being thankful or grateful

gratitude 
200

This is the process of using strategies to reduce stress and handle stress in a positive way.

stress management 

200

A condition in which someone responds with extreme or unrealistic fear and dread to certain situation, experiences, or objects.

Anxiety Disorder

200

A condition characterized by intense negative feelings that do not go away and negatively affect daily life.

Major Depressive Disorder

300

This term describes the moods or feelings you experience.

emotions

300

The ability to keep a positive outlook and focus on the good aspects of situations.

Optimism 

300

reaction in which the body returns to its resting state after a stressful event

relaxation

300

ADHD stands for what?

attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

300

Feelings of being anxious or afraid of social situations in which you might be judged.

Social Anxiety

400

A mental and emotional state in which negative thoughts interfere with daily function for a short amount of time.

mental distress 

400

ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes, and to understand someone else's wants, needs, and perspectives.  

empathy 

400

body's impulse to either fight off or flee from a threat

fight - or - flight response

400

This treatment method focuses on the psychological aspect of mental health

therapy 

400

People who have lived through a terrifying event, involving physical harm or the threat of harm

PTSD - post traumatic stress disorder

500

The 3 steps you can follow to help control your emotions.  

Identify, Accept and Express your feelings.  

500

the ability to bounce back from traumatic or stressful events

resilience 

500

The 3 stages of the body's response to stress.

Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

500

This term is a mark of shame or embarrassment that is usually unfair, causing people to not seek help when it is needed.

stigma 

500

Experiencing moments of intense fear, for no rational reason.

Panic Disorder