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Mental Health
Mental Health, Self-Esteem, Stress, Mental Disorders
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8th Grade
04/08/2009

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Mental Health
Definition
Your ability to like yourself and to accept yourself as you are.
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Personality
Definition
The sum total of your feelings, attitudes and habits.
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Heredity
Definition
The passing on of traits from your parents.
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Environment
Definition
The sum total of your surroundings.
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Behavior
Definition
The way you act in many different situations and events in your life.
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Self Concept
Definition
The picture you have of yourself and the way you believe you are seen by others.
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Reinforce
Definition
Back up
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Stress
Definition
Your body's response to changes around you.
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Positive Stress
Definition
The stress that helps you to accomplish and reach your goals.
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Negative Stress
Definition
Distressed; A stress that can hold you back.
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Stressors
Definition
Triggers of stress.
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Adrenaline
Definition
a chemical that makes your heart beat faster and speeds up blood flow to brain and muscles.
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Fatigue
Definition
Extreme Tiredness
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Physical Fatigue
Definition
Extreme tiredness of the body as a whole.
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Psychological Fatigue
Definition
Extreme tiredness caused by your mental state.
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Defense Mechanisms
Definition
Ways by which people temporarily escape their problems.
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Denial
Definition
Inability to see reality.
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Fantasy
Definition
Imagining through daydreaming that a problem has been solved.
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Suppression
Definition
The blocking out of unpleasant thoughts.
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Displacement
Definition
Having bad feelings toward someone not really related to the cause of the problem.
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Projection
Definition
Unsknowingly blaming someone else for a problem.
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Neurosis
Definition
When a fear gets in the way of person's ability to funtion in daily life.
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Psychosis
Definition
A condition in which a person is not able to funtion in the real world.
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Depression
Definition
the name of a medical condition in which the sufferer feels extreme sadness and lack of energy.
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