Mental Health Glossary

The inability to feel pleasure. It's a common symptom of depression as well as other mental health disorders. People with anhedonia lose interest in activities they used to enjoy and have a decreased ability to feel pleasure.

The mental discomfort experienced by someone holding two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a person's belief clashes with new information perceived, leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance.

The ability to exert control over one's own emotional state. It may involve behaviors such as rethinking a challenging situation to reduce anger or anxiety, hiding visible signs of sadness or fear, or focusing on reasons to feel happy or calm.

A term for the range of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral difficulties which often occur after injury to the frontal lobes of the brain. It can affect a person's ability to plan, organize, manage time, and focus attention, often seen in conditions like ADHD, depression, or severe burnout.

A form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.

A psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud. Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve all they have achieved.

A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.

A psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. A person with this disorder feels extreme, exaggerated anxiety about physical symptoms, which causes significant disruption to their daily life.