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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

anxiety: a general feeling of uneasiness, worry, or fear that is usually fleeting but can become a mental disorder that affects normal life NED: a term used in medical diagnosis and testing that means “no evidence of disease” and that treatments have worked at removing the illness or disease panic: extreme feelings of fear that can result in visible physical symptoms as well as mental and emotional conditions that cause severe disruptions to normal activities phobias: extreme and often irrational fears of normal, everyday, or truly harmless places and things, causing sufferers to avoid them or to panic when exposed to them psychiatric disorders: conditions that are related to mental disorders or conditions that affect the workings of the brain, mental processes, and normal thought abilities

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