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• stressThe body's physical and emotional response to a demand or threat (stressor).
• anxietyOverwhelming worry, nervousness or apprehension about real or imagined events.
• bereavementThe state of grieving and mourning after a loss, especially a death.
• bipolar disorderA disorder with intense mood swings between mania and depression.
• classical conditioningLearning in which a neutral stimulus becomes linked with one that naturally causes a response.
• defense mechanismAn unconscious thought or behavior that reduces anxiety in the short term.
• deliriumSudden, often reversible confusion, which may be caused by infection, fever or low oxygen.
• delusionA firmly held false belief despite clear evidence against it.
• dementiaChronic, usually irreversible decline in memory and thinking.

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