Mots Difficile Flashcards
(18 cards)
Body dysmorphia
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others.
Control freak
A control freak is someone who is determined to make things happen in exactly the way they want and who tries to make other people do what they want.
Avoidance Coping
mechanism characterized by the effort to avoid dealing with a stressor.
Demanding
requiring a lot.
Destigmatize
to remove associations of shame or dsgrace from.
Emotional blackmail
an attempt to control someone with whom one has an emotional connection by tactics that make the person feel guilty or upset.
Empathy gap
The empathy gap refers to the idea of not being able to relate to the emotions, needs, and feelings of others because they’re naturally experiencing the world around them differently than you are.
Fidgety
making continuous small movements that annoy other people.
Hold back
To hold back means to keep from advancing to the next stage, grade, or level. In French, « retenir, contenir ».
Hot button issue
Important to people have strong opinions, A hot-button issue is a subject or problem that people have very strong feelings about ; a controversial or polemical topic.
Live up to
To live up to something means to be as good as what was expected or promised.
Restless
unable to rest as a result of anxiety.
Social puppeteering
Social Puppeteering is a psychologically damaging form of mental harassment in which a victim’s (or “Puppet’s”) perception of reality is deliberately distorted by a “Puppeteer”, often in outrageous or unbelievable ways for his or her own private amusement.
Stigma
A set of negative and unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something. One of the major obstacles to persons seeking treatment for addiction is the stigma attached to the disease.
Social stigma
Social stigma refers to the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics that serve to distinguish them from other members of a society.
Strong-willed
Someone who is strong-willed has a lot of determination and always tries to do what they want, even though other people may advise them not to.
Stand up to
To défend against a powerful person or organization when they treat you unfairly
Startling
Very surprising or remarkable
