Vocabulary

• affective disorder: A psychological disorder characterized by disturbances in mood or emotion.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• suffer from: To experience pain or distress; to be badly affected by.
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• set up
• do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
• got to: To arrive at some place
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• all the things: Everything; all items or aspects
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• mental: Concerning the mind
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• slightly: Only a little
• recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
• vast: Being very large in size or amount
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
• combat: To fight someone or something physically
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• trial: Hearing and judgment of a case in court
• method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• therapeutic: Intended to make things (e.g. illness) better
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• syndrome: A group of signs and symptoms of a disease
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• collaboration: Act of working with someone to complete a task
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• counter: To say or do something in opposition or resistance
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• professional: Of jobs such as doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc.
• mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• potent: (Of men) being able to make a woman pregnant
• briefly: Using little time or resources
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• diagnose: To determine the cause of an illness or problem
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• deficiency: Lack of something that is necessary
• vigorous: Having energy, strength, or good health
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• medication: Substance to relieve pain or cure sickness
• cascade: Body of water falling from something tall
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• spring: Coil of metal that lessens impact, e.g. on cars
• elevate: To make something higher
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• clinic: Local medical center; department of a hospital
• vitamin: Health-giving substance needed for body function
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• bipolar: (Disorder) exhibiting extremes of behavior
• headache: Pain in the head
• antidepressant: Medicine used to treat depression
• shorten: To make something, e.g. a skirt, shorter