| A | B |
|---|
| Adaptation | Adjustment to the multiple stresses of life |
| Agitation | Mental state characterized by irregular and erratic behavior. |
| Alcoholism | Dependency on alcohol |
| Coping | Handling or dealing with stressful situations |
| Defense mechanisms | Acting in a protective way |
| Delusions | False belief. |
| Denial | Unconscious defense mechanism in which an occurrence or observation is refused recognition as reality in order to avoid anxiety or pain. |
| Depression | Morbid sadness or melancholy. |
| Disorientation | Loss of recognition of time, place, or people. |
| Hypochondriasis | Abnormal concern about one’s health. |
| Maladaptive behavior | Inappropriate reaction due to mental breakdown. |
| Mental illness | Behavioral maladaptations |
| Paranoia | State in which one has delusions of persecution and/or grandeur. |
| Projection | Unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual denies his or her own emotionally unacceptable traits and sees them as belonging to another. |
| Reaction formation | Repressing the reality of an anxiety-producing situation; the individual exhibits behaviors that are exactly opposite to the real feelings. |
| Reality orientation | Techniques used to help a person remain oriented to environment, time, and self. |
| Repression | The involuntary exclusion from awareness or a painful or conflict-creating thought, memory, felling or impulse. |
| Stressors | Situations, feelings, or conditions that cause a person to be anxious about his or her physical or emotional well-being. |
| Suicide | Self-destruction; killing oneself. |
| suppression | Consciously refusing to acknowledge unacceptable feelings or thoughts. |
