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| Mental Health | Your ability to deal in a reasonable way with stresses and changes in everyday life. |
| Personality | A special mix of traits, feelings, attitudes, and habits. |
| Values | Beliefs and ideas about what is imporant in your life. |
| Self Concept | The view that you have of yourself. |
| Self Esteem | The way you feel about yourself. |
| Emotional Needs | These are needs that affect your feelings and sense of well-being. |
| Emotions | Another word for feelings. |
| Hormones | Glands produce these. They are a chemical substance that regulates many body functions. |
| Stress | Your body's response to changes around you. |
| Distress | Stress that keeps you from doing the things you need to do or causes you discomfort is called negative streess or ________. |
| Stressors | The triggers of stress. |
| Adrenaline | This hormone increases the level of sugar in your blood, which gives your body extra energy. |
| Fatigue | Extreme tiredness |
| Physical Fatigue | Extreme tiredness of the whole body. |
| Phychological Fatigue | Extreme tiredness caused by your mental state. |
| Defense Mechanisms | Short term ways of dealing with stress. |
| Neurosis | When a fear gets in the way of a person's ability to function in daily life he or she suffers from this condition. |
| Anxiety Disorder | Are disorders in which real or imagined fears keep a person from functioning normally. |
| Psychosis | This is a condition in which a person is not able to function in the real world. |
| Schizophrenia | Often called 'split mind'. This is a serious disorder in which people turn inward and often completely lose touch with reality. |
| Suicide | Intentionally killing oneself |
| Support System | A network of people available for help when needed. |
