Vocabulary

• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• going on: To continue doing something
• pile up: To put things on top of each other to form a pile
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• on top of that: In addition to something already mentioned; furthermore.
• get emotional: To become easily affected by emotions; to become sentimental or tearful.
• inside of: Within; in the inner part of.
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• on edge: Anxious, nervous, or irritable.
• mess up: To make a mistake
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• out of breath: Having difficulty breathing, often after physical exertion.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• talk about it: To discuss a particular subject.
• have to: Must do
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• mental: Concerning the mind
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• reinforce: To send more troops/resources to support an army
• stigma: Mark of shame or disgrace
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• narrative: The telling of a story
• flaw: Quality that makes something imperfect
• cope: To deal with something in spite of difficulties
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• criticism: Article or essay that judges quality
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• sensitive: Taking offense easily; easily upset or hurt
• prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• willpower: Ability to make yourself do what you really want
• validation: Act of finding or testing the truth of something
• cortisol: Adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
• seek: To ask someone for help
• vicious: Very dangerous, e.g. an animal or dog
• shame: Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
• amygdala: Almond-shaped structure in the brain's anterior
• heal: To recover from or forget a bad experience
• dismiss: To consider that something is at an end
• asthma: Lung illness causing difficulty in breathing
• loop: A circle or curved shape, as when you tie a lace
• feedback: A response or opinion, about a service, etc.
• diagnosis: Judgments by a doctor about a person's illness
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• rejection: Decision that something is not good enough
• internalize: To accept attitudes, behavior as part of yourself
• hyper: Very excited or active
• medication: Substance to relieve pain or cure sickness
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• deep: Complex and important
• leak: Act of (gas, liquid) escaping through a small hole
• echo: (Of a place) to be filled with repeating sounds
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• burn: To destroy with fire
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• burnout: When you get exhausted from the effort of your job
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• limbic: Concerning or forming a limbus
• takeaway: Employee benefit deleted in union contract
• amplifier: Electronic equipment to increases signal strength
• quicksand: Pit of loose wet sand which sucks objects into it
• homework: Work that a student is given to do at home
• overwork: To make someone work too long or too hard