Mental Health Crossword

4. when a person feels disoriented and confused and cannot maintain focus; their attention often wanders and they may have a hard time remembering things or speaking normally.
7. having difficulty falling asleep, difficulty remaining asleep, or a feeling that sleep does not provide good rest.
8. a way to describe a situation in which people talk incoherently (they don’t make much sense), quickly jump from one topic to another, and respond to questions with answers that are unrelated to the questions.
9. a mental health disorder in which people feel apprehension or worry about something bad happening in the future.
10. repetitive behaviors (such as hand washing) that a person feels driven to do to get rid of anxieties.
11. beliefs that are (1) not true, (2) based on an incorrect assumption about the world, and (3) held very strongly by someone even though other people do not believe them.
12. occurs when a person has periods of depression followed by manic episodes.
13. a loss of memory. People with amnesia cannot remember previously learned information and/or have problems learning new information.
14. periods when a person has an unusually elevated mood or an unusually irritable mood. People experiencing manic episodes may have an inflated sense of self-esteem, have a decreased need for sleep, be bursting with energy and activity, and appear very agitated.

1. excessive sleeping or feeling excessively sleepy during waking hours. It is the opposite of insomnia.
2. all chemicals, substances, and medicines that change the way that people feel, behave, and think.
3. a mental health disorder in which people feel very sad or empty and experience a loss of interest or pleasure in activities.
5. when a person perceives something that does not exist
6. describes situations in which mental health symptoms occur together, become severe and longer-lasting, and interfere with the ability to live a comfortable life