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| Antidepressant |
| A drug used to prevent or treat depression. |
| Anxiety |
| A feeling of apprehension and fear characterised by physical symptoms such as palpitations , sweating, and feelings of stress. |
| Behaviour Therapy |
| A treatment program that involves substituting desirable behaviour responses for undesirable ones. |
| Bipolar Disorder |
| A form of depressive disease that characteristically involves cycles of depression and elation or mania. A mood disorder sometimes called manic-depressive illness or manic-depression |
| Body Dysmorphic Disorder |
| It was formerly known as Dysmorphophobia and is an anxiety disorder whereby a person is abnormally preoccupied with an imagined or slight defect in their physical appearance. |
| Brain |
| That part of the central nervous system that is located within the cranium ( skull ). |
| Childhood |
| The time for a boy or girl from birth until he or she is an adult. |
| CBT |
| Cognitive behaviour therapy |
| Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) |
| A Community Mental Health Team is a group of professionals who will provide mental health and social care in the local community. |
| Clinical |
| Having to do with the examination and treatment of patients |
| Cognitive |
| Sufferers learn new methods and ways to change their old thinking patterns and habits. Sufferers are taught to think and respond differently, than they have in the past. |
| Cognitive Behavioural Therapy |
| This is a therapy that can abstain and modify thought patterns contributing to a sufferers symptoms and aims to help change their behaviour. For example, sufferers may be progressively exposed to dirt or some kind and encouraged not to wash their hands. In simple terms it is used to change a sufferers negative thoughts to a positive one. |
| Depression |
| An illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts, that affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. |
| Disease |
| Illness or sickness often characterised by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). |
| Family |
| A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. |
| Genetic |
| Having to do with genes and genetic information. |
| Health |
| As officially defined by the World Health Organisation, a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. |
| Hypochondriasis |
| The belief and fear of serious illness which lasts for six months, beyond and despite medical reassurance. |
| Medication |
| A drug or medicine or the administration of a drug or medicine. |
| Mind |
| That which thinks, reasons, perceives, wills, and feels. |
| Metabolic |
| Metabolism refers to all the chemical processes that take place in the body. |
| Neurological |
| Having to do with the nerves or the nervous system. |
| Neurotransmitter |
| Chemical in the brain , that is released from a nerve cell which transmits an impulse from a nerve cell to another nerve, muscle, organ, or other tissue. |
| Obsessive Ccompulsive Disorder |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a brain disorder that causes problems with information processing. It causes people to worry and/or perform compulsive or repetitive behaviours such as cleaning, checking, counting, or hoarding. |
| OCD |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| Onset |
| In medicine term, the first appearance of the signs or symptoms of an illness . |
| Panic |
| A sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought or action. |
| Panic Disorder |
| A disorder characterised by sudden attacks of fear and panic. |
| Positron Emission Tomography |
| (PET) is a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body. |
| Psychology |
| The study of the mind and mental processes, especially in relation to behaviour. |
| Psychotherapy |
| The treatment of a behaviour disorder, mental illness, or any other condition by psychological means |
| SSRIs |
| Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors |
| Serotonin |
| A hormone , also called 5-hydroxytryptamine , in the pineal gland , blood platelets, the digestive tract, and the brain. |
| Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) |
| These are a form of anti-depressant which has been shown to be effective even if you are not suffering from depression. These drugs work by restoring the low levels of the neurotransmitters in the brain. |
| Tourette's Syndrome |
| Is an hereditary genetic illness caused by chemicals not working properly in a small area of the brain. |
| Therapy |
| The treatment of disease . |
| Side effects |
| Problems that occur when treatment goes beyond the desired effect. |
| Tic |
| A repetitive movement that is difficult, if not impossible, to control. |
| Trichotillomania |
| Trichotillomania is a type of psychological disorder known as an impulse control disorder. Characterised by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, eyebrows or other body hair. |
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