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21Mental distress — is a term used, both by some mental health practitioners and users of mental health services, to describe a range of symptoms and experiences of a person s internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary.… …
22Mental health law — is the area of the law that applies to persons with a diagnosis or possible diagnosis of mental illness, and to those involved in managing or treating such people. Contents 1 Mental health law in general 2 In common law jurisdictions 3 Around the …
23Mental exercise — is the act of performing a mentally stimulating task that is considered beneficial to warding off Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.[1] This practice is accepted by many cultures worldwide. Researchers have done studies finding that mental… …
24Mental function — Mental functions and cognitive processes are terms often used interchangeably (although not always correctly so, the term cognitive tends to have specific implications see cognitive and cognitivism) to mean such functions or processes as… …
25mental — mental, intellectual, psychic, intelligent, cerebral can mean of, relating to, or characteristic of that sum total of powers or functions called variously mind, intellect, soul, psyche, or brain (compare MIND 2). In general mental applies… …
26ability, capacity — Ability means the physical, mental, financial, or legal power to do something (ability to walk, to read, to pay a bill, to assess property). Capacity is the ability to hold, absorb, or contain (a bucket with a capacity of 1 gallon, a motel filled …
27ability — I noun ableness, adaptability, adeptness, adequacy, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, competence, competency, enablement, facultas, faculty, fitness, fittedness, ingenium, mastership, mastery, potentiality, potestas, proficiency, prowess,… …
28ability — ability, capacity, capability are often confused in use. Ability primarily denotes the quality or character of being able (as to do or perform) and is applied chiefly to human beings. Capacity in its corresponding sense means the power or more… …
29mental age — S3 n a measure of someone s ability to think, understand etc, expressed as the average age of a child with that level of ability ▪ a 25 year old man with a mental age of seven …
30mental health — n the condition of being sound mentally and emotionally that is characterized by the absence of mental disorder (as neurosis or psychosis) and by adequate adjustment esp. as reflected in feeling comfortable about oneself, positive feelings about… …
