OBTAINING MENTAL

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OBTAINING MENTAL EMOTIONAL HEALTH

• PERSONALITY
• EMOTIONS
• DEFENSE MECHANISMS

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UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY

• PERSONALITY TRAITS
• EXTROVERT PERSON WHO IS VERY OUTGOING
• INTROVERT PERSON WHO PREFERS BEING ALONE RATHER
  THAN IN A CROWD

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UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY

• PERSONALITY A COMPLEX SET OF CHARACTERISTICS
  THAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE
• MIX OF HOW YOU FEEL, THINK AND BEHAVE
• INFLUENCES
• HEREDITY
• ENVIRONMENT
• BEHAVIOR

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EMOTIONS

• UNDERSTANDING YOUR EMOTIONS IS IMPORTANT TO YOUR
  MENTAL EMOTIONAL HEALTH
• EMOTIONS
• SIGNALS THAT TELL YOU YOUR MIND AND BODY HOW TO
  REACT
• STRONG, IMMEDIATE REACTIONS YOU FEEL IN RESPONSE
  TO AN EXPERIENCE

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EMOTIONS

• HAPPINESS pleased, carefree, satisfied
• SADNESS disappointed, rejected, loss
• LOVE strong affection, deep concern, respect
• EMPATHY imagine what others feel
• FEAR phobia, danger, startled
• GUILT done something wrong, against ones
  values
• ANGER hurt, harmed, displeasure
• GRIEF deep sorrow, loss

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DEALING WITH ONES EMOTIONS

• DEFENSE MECHANISMS
• DEVELOPED TO PROTECT
• HIDE UNWANTED FEELINGS
• DEFEND FROM UNWANTED PAIN

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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

• REPRESSION painful thoughts / feelings are
  pushed away from conscious thoughts
• MOST BASIC OF ALL DEFENSE MECHANISMS
• RATIONALIZATION act of making an excuse for a
  behavior
• COMPENSATION covering up faults or weaknesses
  by trying to excel in other areas
• PROJECTION seeing your own faults or feelings
  in other people, even when they do not have them
• Makes it easier to accept ones own faults

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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

• IDEALIZATION allows people to see others as
  they want them to be
• Keeps them from seeing others as they really are
• DAYDREAMING creation of make-believe events
  that seem more pleasant or exciting than the real
  world
• REGRESSION acting less mature than you usually
  would
• DENIAL refusal to recognize reality

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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

• SUBLIMATION replacement of undesirable impulses
  with accepting behaviors
• DISPLACEMENT shifting the feelings about one
  person / situation to an object / another person
• REACTION FORMATION hiding true feelings from
  oneself by acting in a manner opposite to the way
  that you would like to act
• SUPPRESSION holding back or restraining