Mental Health Vocab

2. An unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent a feared outcome.
5. Intentionally cutting yourself deep enough to bleed.
7. A disorder where you go on uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging.
8. A person who helps mentally ill people.
9. Disorder where people display rigid patterns of behavior that make it difficult to get along with others.
12. Fear caused by a source you cannot identify or isn't as much of a threat as you think.
13. Feeling sad or hopeless for months.
14. A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment od mental disorders.
19. A physician who treats physical disorders of the nervous system.
20. When anxiety persists for a long time and interferes with living.
21. Causes extreme emotions that make it difficult to function.
22. A mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food.

1. A disorder where you have an uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food.
3. A disorder where you don't eat enough food to maintain a healthy body weight.
4. An emotional state in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless.
6. A person who is trained to recognize and treat behavior that is not normal.
10. A disorder that causes severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness and behavior.
11. Intentionally killing yourself.
14. Anxiety that is related to a specific situation.
15. An Illness that affects the mind.
16. A series of suicides in a short period of time within a peer group.
17. An unwanted thought or image that takes control of the mind.
18. Treatment of mental disorders.