Fight/flight: bodys response to stress

Projection: seeing your own faults or feeling in someone else

Distress: a negative stressor
Phobias: persistent fears
Suicide: the act of taking ones own life
Self-esteem: pride in and acceptance of self
*Imagery: a relaxation technique
OCD: repeated, disturbing thoughts
Goal: something that you work toward
Bipolar: uncontrollable cycles of happiness and sadness
Regression: childlike-methods of expressing emotion
Self-image: measure of how one sees themselves
Eustress: a positive stressor
Compensation: making up for a weakness in one area by achieving in another
Aggressive: unfriendly in the way one expresses themselves
Empathy: understand anothers feelings
Stress: the body/mind response to a demand
Value: a strong belief of ideal
Depression: sadness and hopelessness
Health: the state of well being
Defense mechanisms: used for coping strategies
Psychotherapy: a form of therapy to resolve issues

Assertive: direct way of expressing oneself