Mental and Emotional Health

3. is a serious brain disorder that distorts the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality
8. Some ________ mimic your neurotransmitters, and some even use your own brain’s neurotransmitters.
11. Patients with _______ disorder typically display a normal personality/behavior between episodes.
12. Strong voice, good eye contact, and giving facts and reasoning are the steps to being what?
14. is a brain disorder that often makes it hard to communicate with and relate to others.
16. _______ in the body help messages from your brain jump the gap between your nerve cells to travel to where they need to go.
17. Which eating disorder is characterized by binge eating and then purging to maintain a distorted self image?
18. is a condition that can develop following a traumatic and/or terrifying event.
19. One of the factors involved in schizophrenia is an excessive amount of which neurotransmitter?

1. feelings of intense sadness including feeling helpless, hopeless, and worthless that lasts for many days to weeks and keep you from functioning normally.
2. The ability to understand the feelings of others.
4. Which mental illnessis characterized by hyperactivity and the inability to control impulses and having trouble paying attention?
5. is the acronym that is used to solve problems.
6. What is the opposite of empathy
7. Which mental illness deals with memory loss which progresses to gross memory loss, then to a decrease in thinking ability.
9. positive self-talk Is the #1 way to improve what?
10. Can create overwhelming feelings of fear, dread, or resentment to everyday objects or events.
13. The best way to improve self-esteem is to practice _________ self talk.
15. Which Neurotransmitter is believed to have a big impact on depression?