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Mental health: the feelings you have about yourself and your abilities to deal with problems.

Mental health refers to how you use the various aspects of health to achieve positive feelings about yourself and improve your ability to deal with problems.

Defense mechanisms: Techniques people use to protect themselves from being hurt.

Defense mechanisms are techniques used to keep yourself from being hurt.

Self-ideal: your mental image of what you would like to be.

This image represents your self-ideal.

Self-concept: The current mental image you have of yourself.

Rating your level of self-esteem requires a thorough analysis of your self-concept, or self-image as it is sometimes called.

Organic-disorders: mental and emotional disorders resulting from a physical cause.

Mental and emotional disorders resulting from physical causes are called organic-disorders.

Anxiety disorder: a condition in which fear or anxiety prevents one from enjoying life and completing every-day tasks.

If these changes occur most everyday, they can be harmful and become the symptoms of anxiety disorder.

Dissociative disorder: a condition in which someone’s personality changes to the point that the person believes he or she is someone else.

A condition in which someone’s personality changes dramatically is called a dissociattive disorder.

Somatoform Disorder: An emotional condition in which there are physical symptoms but no identifiable disease or injury. The physical symptoms are caused by psychological factors.

People with physical symptoms caused by emotional problems are said to have somatoform disorders.

Mood disorder: A condition in which one mood is experienced almost to the exclusion of other feelings.

A mood disorder occurs when one mood which is often an unhappy mood, is experienced almost to the exclusion of other feelings.

Personality disorder: an emotional condition in which a person’s patterns of behavior negatively affect that person’s ability to get along with others.

Traits that negatively affect a person’s ability to get along with others are called personality disorders.