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Mental Health Terms
Term | Definition |
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alcoholism | dependant on alcohol- creates problems in personal life |
amnesia | loss of memory |
anxiety | a feeling of uneasiness |
Alzheimer's Disease | progressive memory loss and loss in functioning caused by changes in the brain |
dementia | difficulty functioning in daily life due to losses in thinking processes, such as memory and word-finding |
depression | deep sadness |
disorientation | loss of time, place or person |
neurotic | emotional disorder, defensive, in touch with reality |
paranoid | delusions of persecution |
psychosis | major mental disorder, out of touch with reality |
psychosomatic | showing physical symptoms with no physical illness |
schizophrenia | a disorder with hallucinations and paranoid thinking |
senile | loss of physical, mental or emotional control of the elderly |