| A | B |
|---|
| Abnormal | unusual or different from normal |
| Psychologist | a person who studies mental and behavioral characteristics |
| Self-defeating behavior | an action that blocks a person's efforts to reach goals |
| Defense Mechanism | a mental device one uses to protect oneself |
| Repression | a refusal to think about something that upsets you |
| Denial | a refusal to believe or accept something negative or threatening |
| Projection | assuming that another person has one's own attitudes, feelings or purposes |
| Displacement | shifting an emotion from its real object to a safer or more immediate one |
| Phobia | excessive fear of an object or a specific situation |
| Affective Disorder | a mental problem in which a person has disturbed or uncontrolled emotions |
| Clinical Depression | an affective disorder involving long-lasting intense sadness |
| Suicide | the act of killing oneself |
| Bipolar Disorder | an affective disorder involving an uncontrolled shift from feeling too much energetic emotion to feeling very depressed |
| Substance Abuse | an unhealthy dependence on alcohol or other drugs |
| Addicted | unable to stop using alcohol or another drugs |
| Anxiety Disorder | a mental problem that makes normal life difficult because of intese anxiety |
| Panic Attack | a feeling of terror that comes without warning and includes symptoms of chest pain, rapid heartbeat, sweating, shaking or shortness of breath |
| Thought Disorder | a mental problem in which a person has twisted or false ideas and beliefs |
| Hallucination | a twisted idea about an unreal object or event |
| Delusion | a false belief |
| Eating Disorder | an attempt to cope with psychological problems through eating disorders |
| Psychotherapy | psychological treatment for mental or emotional disorders |
| Behavior Modification | Form of psychotherapy that teaches a person to replace a less effective behavior pattern with a more effective one |
| Cognitive Therapy | form of psychotherapy that teaches a person to replace destructive thoughts with positive ones |
