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- mental health
- state of being comfortable with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings
- proteins
- nutrients that contain nitrogen as well as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
- Mood disorders
- result when the emotions a person feels become so extreme that they interfere with daily life; can affect daily life
- Habit
- behavior repeated so often that it becomes almost automatic
- stress
- the response of your body and mind to be challenged or threatened
- Panic disorder
- Attacks of extreme anxiety that come and go for no apparent reason
- anemia
- a condition in which the red blood cells don't contain enough hemoglobin
- compulsion
- an unreasonable need to behave in a certain way
- Action plan
- a series of specific steps you can take to achieve a goal
- Wellness
- state of high-level health
- bulimia
- take in abnormal amount of calories they ride their food either by vomiting or laxatives
- emotional health
- how you react to events in your life; feelings you experience are appropriate reasons to events
- eustress
- positive stress
- Risk factor
- any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease or other negative outcome
- Phobia
- anxiety related to a specific situation or object
- Claustrophobia
- Fear of small, closed in places
- Cutting
- the use of a sharp object to intentionally create deep bleeding
- Behavioral therapy
- Involves member helping each other to learn better coping skills;Often used to treat phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders
- dehydration
- a serious reduction in the body's water content
- Psychotherapy
- treatment method that involves conversations with a trained professional who helps an individual overcome a mental disorder
- Culture
- the beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a groups of people and passed from generation to generation
- Behavioral Risk Factors
- factors that are in your own control
- social health
- how well you get along with others
- functional
- heredity
- complex carbs
- made up of sugars that are linked together chemically to form chains
- spiritual health
- relationship with God
- Fight or flight response
- the immediate reaction of the body to stress
- Therapy
- the term for the treatment technique used by a health professional
- carbohydrates
- nutrients made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
- Hypochondria
- somatoform disorder characterized by a constant fear of disease and preoccupation with one's health
- stressor
- an event that makes a demand on your body and mind and cause you to react
- Psychiatrist
- can use a combination of drug therapy and psychotherapy to treat mental illness
- alarm stage
- body releases adrenaline into blood; causes heart to beat faster, breathing speeds up, muscles tense, attention narrows, digestion slows
- Life expectancy
- the number of years that a person can expect to live
- anxiety disorders
- a person's fears interfere with normal, everyday functioning
- Anxiety
- may be caused by feelings of fear that no longer exist; extreme fear with an identifiable object
- social environment
- people you speed time with
- simple carbs
- consists of sugars; most important for humans to use is glucose; provides energy to body
- Case history
- brief description of an individual who suffers from a particular disorder
- homeostasis
- the process of maintaining a steady state inside your body
- fiber
- type of complex carb that is found in plants; human bodies cannot break it down
- Amnesia
- sudden loss of memory
- minerals
- nutrients that occur naturally in rocks and soil
- Somatoform disorders
- it involves no physical damage, even though they might think that they are in pain
- The Wellness continuum
- the range of health between the extremes of illness and wellness
- Antisocial personality disorder
- commits cruel, violet acts without guilt
- Group therapy
- involves meeting with others who have similar conditions
- metabolism
- chemical processes by which your body breaks down food to obtain energy
- Organic disorders
- have a physical cause
- amino acids
- long chains of smaller links bound together chemically
- compulsion
- an unreasonable need to behave in a certain way
- Family therapy
- focuses on problems that affect the family as a unit, such a divorce
- nutrients
- substances your body to regulate bodily functions-promote growth repair tissues, obtain energy
- 4 types of stressors
- major life changes, catastrophe, everyday problems, environmental problems
- Neurologist
- physician who specializes in treating organic disorders of the brain and the nervous system
- quality of life
- the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life
- saturated fats
- fats that have all the hydrogen the carbon atoms can hold; solid at room temperature
- panic attacks
- when a person experiences attacks or extreme anxiety that come and go for no apparent reason
- Family Members
- Example of your social life
- Anorexia nervosa
- Refusal to eat enough food
- physical environment
- outdoor and indoor surroundings
- Hereditary
- all the traits passed biologically from parent to child
- Case history
- a brief description of a person who suffers from a mental disorder
- Obsession
- an idea or thought that takes over the mind and cannot be forgiven
- Occupational therapist
- helps the mentally ill by teaching them skills that will make them productive members of society
- mental disorder
- illness that affects the mind and reduces a person's ability to function, to adjust to change, or to get along with others
- dissociative disorders
- people become disconnected from their former identities.
- Pastoral counselor
- member of the religious community with training and counseling
- Schizophrenia
- a condition characterized by unpredictable disturbances in thinking, mood and behavior ;Condition characterized as "spilt mind"
- Dissociative identity disorder
- frequent switching between two or more separate
- Psychologist
- usually has a doctoral degree in psychology and two years of practical training
- fats
- made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen but in different proportions
- health continuum
- a gradual progression through many stages between one extreme to another
- quality of life and life expectancy
- Two factors that are used to evaluate your health
- calories
- amount of energy released when nutrients are broken down
- Clinical psychologist
- mental-health professional who specializes in recognizing and treating abnormal behavior
- trans fats
- made when manufacturers add hydrogen to the fat molecules in vegetable oils
- trauma
- a painful physical or emotional experience
- physical health
- how well your body functions
- generalized anxiety
- intense worry or fear, sometimes without a specific source, for more than six months
- hypochondria
- a constant fear of disease and preoccupation with ones health
- resistance stage
- unable to deal with a stressor in the alarm stage; become tired, irritable, less able to handle stress
- nutrition
- process by which body takes in and uses nutrients
- Culture
- beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shaped by a group of people and passed from generation to generation includes tradition, language, food preference, and religion
- post-dramatic stress disorder
- people who survive a life-threatening event
- cluster suicide
- occurs when several people in a school or social group attempt to commit suicide
- exhaustion stage
- body can't keep up with demands placed on it
- electrolytes
- broken down substances in water
- antioxidants
- help protect healthy cells from the damage caused by the normal aging process as well as from certain types of cancer
- vitamins
- nutrients that are made by living things, are only required to take in small amounts and, and that assist chemical reactions
- binge eating disorder
- eat large amounts of food
- Dementia
- common type of organic disorder characterized by an irreversible loss of brain function
- unsaturated fats
- liquid at room temperature; has at least one unsaturated bond in a place where hydrogen can be added to a molecule
- Prevention
- taking action to avoid disease, injury and other negative health outcomes
- cholesterol
- waxy, fatlike substance found in animal products