Mental Health

2. Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: a mental illness characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsive; diagnosed most often in children
3. in obsessive-compulsive disorder, behaviors or rituals that develop in response to the anxiety caused by obsessive thoughts
6. Addiction: the uncontrolled use of a drug
7. depressive disorder: mental illness characterized by a combination of symptoms that interfere with a person's ability to undertake everyday activities
9. in obsessive-compulsive disorder, undesirable thoughts that occur constantly, cause anxiety
10. a feeling of worry and fear that causes physical symptoms, such as sweating and stress
11. Illness: health condition that changes a persons emotion, thoughts, and behavior and that affects the person ability to undertake daily functions
12. Disease: type of dementia that causes the deaths of brain cells and subsequent impairment of thinking and memory
14. unfounded or irrational distrust of other people

1. Disorder: a mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy and ability to function also known as manic depressive disorder
4. a irrational fear of an object or event that poses little or no actual risk
5. mental illness in which a persons loses touch with reality; often characterized by hallucinations such as voices that other people cannot hear and delusions
6. any chemical substance that changes a persons physical or psychological state
8. Disorder: A mental illness in which a person feel too much anxiety in response to everyday situations
13. traumatic stress disorder: a mental illness that develops after terrifying incident that involved physical harm or the threat of harm