Mental Illnesses

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Across
  1. 4. Decline in the ability to recall recent and past events.
  2. 6. an obsessive desire to set fire to things.
  3. 7. Suspicion or mistrust of others.
  4. 8. a compulsive desire to pull out one's hair.
  5. 13. A disorder of the brain characterised by periodic and temporary loss of consciousness with or without fitting.
  6. 15. talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants.
  7. 16. A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour.
  8. 17. refusal to accept any standard short of perfection.
  9. 21. This term is frequently used to refer to anti-psychotic medication.
  10. 22. inability to sleep.
  11. 25. denoting or having a personality type characterized by emotional aloofness and solitary habits.
  12. 27. feelings of unease, tension and distress with an exaggerated fear of possible danger or misfortune.
  13. 28. A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour.
  14. 29. A mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts.
Down
  1. 1. inability to refrain from the urge to steal items and is done for reasons other than personal use or financial gain.
  2. 2. A psychotic symptom characterised by distorted or imaginary sensations of sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch that are experienced by the person as if real.
  3. 3. A medical term meaning the identification of symptoms which are consistent with a particular illness or disorder.
  4. 5. Syndrome intellectual impairment and physical abnormalities including short stature and a broad facial profile.
  5. 7. a disorder characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during sleep.
  6. 9. is the fear of having no escape and being in closed or small spaces or rooms.
  7. 10. Changes in a person's mind or body that indicate they may be suffering from a particular illness.
  8. 11. difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols.
  9. 12. A form of dementia characterised by the gradual deterioration of brain tissues and brain function.
  10. 14. A persistent and unreasonable fear of a specific thing. ie spiders.
  11. 18. psychological tendency or sexual practice characterized by both sadism and masochism.
  12. 19. inability to speak.
  13. 20. A lowering of mood which includes feelings of sadness, despair and discouragement.
  14. 23. A person that has strong indications or intentions of taking their own life.
  15. 24. a partial or total loss of memory.
  16. 26. Significant symptoms involve fluctuating states of mood characterised by marked depressive and/or manic episodes.