Mental Illness

3. Any chemical substance that changes a person’s physical or psychological state.
4. Unfounded or irrational distrust of other people.
7. Mental illness characterized by a combination of symptoms that include prolonged sadness and that interfere with a person’s ability to undertake everyday activities.
9. A sustained loss of intellectual functions and memory severe enough to interfere with daily living activities.
11. In obsessive-compulsive disorder, behaviors or rituals that develop in response to the anxiety caused by obsessive thoughts.
13. A mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function; also known as manic-depressive disorder.
15. Type of dementia that causes the death of brain cells and subsequent impairment of thinking and memory.
16. A mental illness that develops after a terrifying incident that involved physical harm.

1. An irrational fear of an object or event that poses little or no actual risk.
2. Cycles of eating and purging cycles.
5. An abnormal fear of gaining weight.
6. An illness that disrupts normal mental or physical functions.
8. In obsessive-compulsive disorder, undesirable thoughts that occur constantly, causing anxiety.
10. Health condition that changes a person’s thoughts, emotions, and behavior and that affects the person’s ability to undertake daily functions
12. Mental illness in which a person loses touch with reality; often characterized by hallucinations, such as voices that other people cannot hear, and delusions.
14. A feeling of worry and fear that causes physical symptoms, such as sweating, and stress.
15. A mental illness characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness; diagnosed most often in children.