My glossary's topic is my future job. I want to be a psychologist because it helps other people to be better mentally. I think it's really important for everyone to feel good about their mental health.
amnesia
noun
A partial or total loss of memory.
Example: The study of human memory is of great importance in learning and education, as well as for disorders such as AMNESIA, and to generally understand the functions and processes of memory.
en: amnésie
anxiety
noun
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
Example: I decided to focus on time management and prioritization as tools to overcome my ANXIETY. Although this essay is a reflection on the ways I can improve my time management and reduce my ANXIETY and stress levels, it is important to understand how time management can affect the patient.
en: anxiété
delusion
noun
A false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions.
Example: Berkeley believes that honest attention to our ideas, free from, "embarrass and DELUSION of words," should convince us that we can form no coherent conception of an object without conceiving it as perceived.
en: illusion
depression
noun
Feelings of severe despondency and dejection.
Example: When this occurs a person can feel DEPRESSION and despair.
en: dépression
disorder
noun
A state of confusion.
Example: For the purpose of this assignment, I have chosen to discuss two observations of the same family attending a clinic for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DISORDER.
en: désordre
euphoria
noun
a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
Example: Still, there is something strongly counter-intuitive in the idea that a pattern of activation could in principle be artificially generated, such that a feeling of extreme EUPHORIA is generated, but which leaves one with no desire to repeat whatever behaviour that produced that state.
en: euphorie
fear
noun
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
Example: One of the most fears some barbarian characters can be found in Euripides' Medea.
en: crainte
habit
noun
a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.
Example: You get used to everything. No human force, not even fear, is stronger than habit.
en: habitude
image
noun
the general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public.
Example: she strives to project an image of youth
en: image
mania
noun
mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.
Example: However, low moods and reduced activity levels were not characteristic of patient with MANIA.
en: manie
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
phrase
a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.
Example: My patient needs to see the Marslow's hierarchy of needs because he don't sleep at night.
en: La hiérarchie des besoins de Maslow
memory
noun
the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information
Example: A really traumatic event happened to me when I was younger, my head decided to forget about it, but sometimes I get flash memories about what happened.
en: mémoire
mental strain
noun
a state of worry and tension caused by a situation.
Example: My brother has been under severe mental strain.
en: tensions mentales
phobia
noun
an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something
Example: this will lead to a sense of accomplishment of battling their PHOBIA and also prevent a relapse as they have the knowledge that they are capable of controlling their fear and feel anxious about and anxiety.
en: phobie
psychology
noun
the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example: My sister is driven by psychology, she loves to understand how people brain can think some ways.
en: psychologie
sadness
noun
The condition or quality of being sad.
Example: It is proposed that the joy or SADNESS resulting from this judgment is only short term, meaning that our ultimate happiness will remain fairly stable throughout our lives.
en: tristesse
self-esteem
noun
Confidence in one's own worth or abilities; self-respect.
Example: I tend to have low self-esteem.
en: respect de soi
sensitization
noun
The quality or condition of responding to certain stimuli in a sensitive manner.
Example: The goal of the activity is to sensitized you to this fear.
en: sensibilisation
stress
noun
A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
Example: My mom is under a lot of stress since she started working at a different place.
en: stress
sublimation
noun
Transformation of rejected impulses into socially recognized values.
Example: Last week, I was doing my homework at a coffee shop, and I thought about going out without paying my bill but thanks to sublimation to not let me do that.
