Across
- 2. Defense mechanism where a person deals with stress by behaving in an immature or age-in appropriate way
- 3. Ignoring the reality of a situation to avoid anxiety
- 5. Chronic long-term condition that affects the airways in the lungs
- 7. A feeling of fatigue caused by things such as lack of exercise, boredom, or mental stress that results in lack of energy and depression
- 9. Strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weakness, frustrations, desires or feelings of inadequacy
- 10. Psychological defense mechanism in which a person redirects a negative emotion from its original source to a less threatening recipient
- 15. The tendency to escape from the real world to the safety and comfort of a fantasy world
- 16. Process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object
- 17. The exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings from the conscious mind
- 19. A state of tiredness and diminished functioning
- 20. A defense mechanism in which people justify difficult or unacceptable feelings with seemingly logical reasons and explanations
- 22. A broad range of mental experiences, mediated the faculty of imagination in the human brain
- 24. Defense mechanism that involves channeling unwanted or unacceptable urges into an admissible or productive outlet
- 25. A condition in which the blood vessels have persistently raised pressure
- 26. Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain
- 27. A general term for conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels
Down
- 1. An unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer stressors
- 4. A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances
- 6. A small area in the center of the brain that helps produce hormones that regulate heart rate, body temperature, hunger, and the sleep-wake cycle
- 8. A psychological condition involving the occurrence of physical symptoms, usually lacking a medical explanation
- 11. A situation or event that causes one to feel stressed
- 12. An open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucus membrane that fails to heal
- 13. An ego defense or mental mechanism through which an individual, in varying degree, makes himself or herself like someone else
- 14. Causes extreme fatigue that lasts for at least six months; symptoms worsen with physical or mental activity but don’t fully improve with rest
- 18. A feeling of constant exhausting, burnout, or lack of energy
- 21. A stress hormone known as epinephrine; part of the “fight or flight” response
- 23. Positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being