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S: (n) anxiety, anxiousness ((psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic)
S: (n) anterograde amnesia, posttraumatic amnesia (loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma)
S: (n) selective amnesia (amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember) "why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?"
S: (n) posthypnotic amnesia (selective amnesia after being in a hypnotic state of events occurring during hypnosis or of information designated by the hypnotist)
S: (n) transient global amnesia (memory disorder seen in middle aged and elderly persons; characterized by an episode of amnesia and bewilderment that lasts for several hours; person is otherwise alert and intellectually active)
S: (n) paramnesia ((psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality)
S: (n) set, readiness ((psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way) "the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution"; "his instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set"
S: (n) ivory tower (a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place) "he lived in the ivory tower of speculation"; "they viewed universities as ivory towers"
S: (n) consciousness (an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation) "he lost consciousness"
S: (n) stream of consciousness (the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience)
S: (n) self, ego (your consciousness of your own identity)
S: (n) anima ((Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious)
S: (n) awareness, sentience (state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness) "the crash intruded on his awareness"
S: (n) waking (the state of remaining awake) "days of danger and nights of waking"
S: (n) wakefulness (a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world) "consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar"
S: (n) automatic pilot, autopilot (a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness) "she went about her chores on automatic pilot"; "too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot"; "she talked and he dozed and my mind went on autopilot"
S: (n) unselfconsciousness (the quality of being not self-conscious; unawareness of yourself or of others' views of yourself) "he had the unselfconsciousness of a child"
S: (n) grogginess, stupor, stupefaction, semiconsciousness (marginal consciousness) "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor"
S: (n) coma, comatoseness (a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury)
S: (n) trance (a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep)
S: (n) hypnotic trance (a trance induced by the use of hypnosis; the person accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist)
S: (n) religious trance, ecstatic state (a trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances)
S: (n) semitrance (a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent)
S: (n) narcosis (unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia)
S: (n) nitrogen narcosis (confused or stuporous state caused by high levels of dissolved nitrogen in the blood) "deep-sea divers can suffer nitrogen narcosis from breathing air under high pressure"
S: (n) part (that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation) "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part"
S: (n) disorientation (confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction) "his disorientation was the result of inattention"
S: (n) culture shock (a condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly exposed to an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes)
S: (n) jamais vu (the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy)
S: (n) mystery, enigma, secret, closed book (something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained) "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"
S: (n) tangle, snarl, maze (something jumbled or confused) "a tangle of government regulations"
S: (n) dilemma, quandary (state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options)
S: (n) double bind ((psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful)
S: (n) certainty (the state of being certain) "his certainty reassured the others"
S: (n) reliance, trust (certainty based on past experience) "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"
S: (n) indecision, indecisiveness, irresolution (doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action) "his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost"
S: (n) absentmindedness (preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored)
S: (n) inwardness (preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values) "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"; "inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"
S: (n) outwardness (concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit) "what is the origin of the outwardness of our sensations of sound, smell, or taste"; "an abstract conception with feelings of reality and spatial outwardness attached to it"
S: (n) birth trauma (emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness)
S: (n) morale (a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose)
S: (n) anxiety, anxiousness ((psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic)
S: (n) castration anxiety ((psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women)
S: (n) panic, scare (sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events) "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
S: (n) hallucinosis (a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations)
S: (n) identity crisis (distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one's role in society)
S: (n) strain, mental strain, nervous strain ((psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress) "his responsibilities were a constant strain"; "the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him"
S: (n) tension, tenseness, stress ((psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense) "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
S: (n) yips (nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)) "to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting"
S: (n) breaking point ((psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial)
S: (n) delusions of grandeur (a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are)
S: (n) delusions of persecution (a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complicated conspiracy is frequently imagined)
S: (n) hallucination (illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder)
S: (n) rationality, reason, reasonableness (the state of having good sense and sound judgment) "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"
S: (n) mental illness, mental disease, psychopathy (any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention)
S: (n) megalomania (a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur)
S: (n) Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's, Alzheimers (a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness)
S: (n) Pick's disease (a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia)
S: (n) paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia (a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner)
S: (n) agitation (a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance)
S: (n) disturbance, perturbation, upset (an unhappy and worried mental state) "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
S: (n) fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither (agitation resulting from active worry) "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
S: (n) dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap (an excited state of agitation) "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
S: (n) tailspin (loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse)
S: (n) depression (a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity)
S: (n) melancholia (extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears)
S: (n) dissociation, disassociation (a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently)
S: (n) fugue, psychogenic fugue (dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state)
S: (n) split personality, multiple personality (a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge)