Across
- 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.
Down
- 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