Mental Health Symptoms | Disorders | Terms | Drugs Effects | DRUGS |
---|---|---|---|---|
a feeling of apprehension or worry about something bad happening in the future.
What is Anxiety
|
Occurs when a person's mental health problems are brought about by drug use.
What is a drug induced mental health disorder.
|
describes all chemicals, substances, and medicines that change the way that people feel, behave or think.
What is alcohol or other drugs.
|
When a person perceives something that does not exist.
What are hallucinations.
|
These drugs energize the nervous system by making the nerves act more quickly than normal.
What are stimulants.
|
beliefs that are not true and based on an incorrect assumption about the world.
What are delusions
|
Occurs when a person struggles with alcohol or other drug use.
What is substance use disorder
|
This means seeing, being aware of, and understanding the world around you.
What is perceiving.
|
having difficulty falling asleep or remaining asleep.
What is Insomnia.
|
This drug separates the body from the mind,
What is PCP, or angel dust.
|
Repetitive behaviors that a person feels driven to do.
What are compulsions
|
Occurs when a person experiences delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized thinking.
What is a psychotic disorder
|
This describes the way that people figure things out, solve problems, and do mental exercises such as planning.
What is thinking.
|
unusually elevated mood or unusually irritable mood.
What is mania
|
A drug that makes a person calmer, reduces anxiety and lowers stimulation from the senses.
What is a sedative
|
when people talk but they don't make much sense and quickly jump from one topic to another.
What is disorganized thinking
|
Occurs when a person has serious problems related to mood.
What is mood disorder
|
A primary, progressive, chronic process with genetic psycho-social, and environmental factors influencing its development and outcome.
What is addiction
|
Excessively sleeping.
What is hyper-somnia.
|
Drugs that reduce pain by slowing down the nerve messages going to the brain.
What are opioids.
|
long lasting thoughts, impulses or images that are unwanted and cause distress.
What are obsessions.
|
Occurs when a person has periods of depression followed by periods of mania.
What is bipolar disorder.
|
This results after prolonged exposure to a mood altering drug causes the cells in the body to become accustomed to the drug.
What is physical dependence
|
inability to remember previously learned information or loss of memory.
What is amnesia.
|
This important brain chemical regulates mood, emotion, learning, memory, sleep, and pain.
What is serotonin.
|