Category: E

Lacking intimate relationships.  

A closeness between two or more people that includes a mutual awareness and influence of feelings. The state of being emotionally connected to another person. The openness, sharing, affection, and trust that can develop in a close relationship.  

An ego defense mechanism in which the person reduces the tensions of need and anxiety by withdrawing into a shell of passivity.  

An immature reaction to minor stress characterized by excitability and ineffectiveness.  

The failure to develop normal adult degrees of independence and self-reliance with consequent use of immature adjustive patterns and the inability to maintain equilibrium under stress that most people can meet satisfactorily. Lacking in emotional development.  

Mental health.  

A central orientation characterized by how much effort or feeling children typically express and by how important interactions with other people are to them, central orientation; placidity explosiveness.  

The means by which a person releases emotions or strong feelings.  

The state of a marriage in which the partners have ceased to have meaningful verbal or other interactions.  

A condition characterized by the inability to learn, relate to others, or overcome depression. Emotional disturbance represents a broad category of psychological difficulties that have also been referred to as internalizing or externalizing disorders. Emotional disturbance usually includes symptoms of anxiety and depression, but it can include symptoms consistent with a psychotic disorder, such as…