Chapter 4: Mental Health

6. An eating disorder in which a person has uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging.
7. A treatment method used to talk out your problems
8. A disorder characterized by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior.
10. A disorder characterized by anxiety that persists for a long time and interferes with daily living.
11. The use of a sharp object to intentionally cut or scratch one’s body deep enough to bleed.
12. An emotional state in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless.
16. The intentional killing of oneself.
17. An unwanted thought or image that takes control of the mind.

1. A physician who can diagnose and treat mental disorders.
2. Anxiety that is related to a specific situation or object.
3. An eating disorder in which a person regularly has an uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food, but without purging.
4. Fear caused by a source you cannot identify or a source that doesn’t pose as much threat as you think.
5. A mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food.
9. An eating disorder in which a person doesn’t eat enough food to maintain a healthy body weight.
13. An illness that affects the mind and reduces a person’s ability to function, to adjust to change, or to get along with others.
14. A physician who treats physical disorders of the nervous system.
15. An unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent a feared outcome.