Mental Health
Across
- 3. Medical condition in which a person feels very sad, anxious and without hope.
- 5. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession.
- 6. The state of feeling nervous or worried that something bad is going to happen.
- 9. A sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions when there is no real danger or apparent cause.
- 10. The treatment of mental health problems by talking with a therapist.
- 13. Medication used in mental treatments, these drugs can help reduce mood swings and prevent manic and depressive episodes.
- 14. Brain condition, mostly affecting older people, in which a person has difficulties with memory, thinking, control of the body.
- 15. Hospital where people who were mentally ill could be cared for, often for a long time.
Down
- 1. A mental illness causing somebody to control the amount of food they eat in an extreme way that leads to dangerous weight loss.
- 2. A doctor who studies and treats mental illnesses.
- 4. A mental illness in which a person becomes unable to link thought, emotion and behaviour
- 7. A strong unreasonable fear of something.
- 8. A scientist who studies and is trained in psychology.
- 11. A surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain.
- 12. The act of believing or making yourself believe something that is not true.