Defense Mechanisms
Mental Disorders
Mental Health
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100

Accusing another person of having one's own attitudes, feelings, or purposes.

What is Projection?

100
A feeling of terror that comes without warning and includes chest pain, rapid heartbeat, sweating, shaking, or shortness of breath.

What is a panic attack?

100

a false belief

What is delusion?

100

relating to someone very personal or private

What is Intimate

100

the state of feeling happy, healthy, and content

what is well-being

200

The conscious refusal to take a threat seriously. 

What is Denial?

200

A mental problem characterized by twisted or false ideas and beliefs

What is a thought disorder?

200

psychological treatment for mental or emotional disorders

What is psychotherapy?

200

being realistic or reasonable

What is rational

200

to help something or someone to grow or develop

what is nurture

300

The unconscious dismissal of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind.

What is Repression?

300

An attempt to cope with psychological problems through eating habits

What is an eating disorder?

300

unusual; different from normal

abnormal

300

harmed; working abnormally

what is dysfunctional?

300

observing other people to determine how to behave

what is social comparison? 

400

Shifting an emotion from its real object to a safer or more immediate one.

What is Displacement?

400

A mental problem involving an uncontrolled shift from feeling too much energetic emotion to feeling very depressed

What is bipolar disorder?

400

an affective disorder involving long lasting intense sadness

what is clinical depression

400

killing oneself

what is suicide...

400

actions that block a person's efforts to reach goals

what are self-defeating behaviors

500

A mental device one uses to protect oneself. 

What are Defense Mechanisms? 

500

A mental problem characterized by disturbed or uncontrolled emotions

What is Affective Disorder?
500

form of psychotherapy that teaches a person to replace a less effective behavior pattern with a more effective one 

what is behavior modification?

500

an irrational fear or unreasonable fear of something

what is a phobia

500

Give me 3 examples of Self-Defeating Behaviors

any action that blocks a person's efforts to reach goals......