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Deutsch: Qual / Español: Tormento / Português: Tormento / Français: Tourment / Italiano: Tormento

Torment in psychology refers to a state of severe mental or emotional distress, often caused by persistent internal struggles, unresolved conflicts, or external stressors. It is associated with intense feelings of suffering, helplessness, or anguish that may impact an individual’s mental health and overall well-being.

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Deutsch: Erstarrung / Español: Letargo / Português: Torpor / Français: Torpeur / Italiano: Torpore

Torpor in psychology refers to a state of reduced mental or physical activity, often associated with sluggishness, apathy, or lethargy. It can manifest as a lack of motivation, decreased responsiveness to external stimuli, and impaired cognitive function. This state is typically linked to conditions such as depression, burnout, or certain neurological disorders, where the mind or body becomes less active in response to overwhelming emotional or physical stress. Torpor differs from more severe conditions like catatonia, as it allows for some degree of activity, albeit at a diminished level.

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Tort refers to an injury or wrong committed against a person's property, subject to compensation; an infringement of the rights of an individual that is not founded on either contract or criminal law prohibition.

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Deutsch: Folter / Español: Tortura / Português: Tortura / Français: Torture / Italiano: Tortura

Torture in the psychology context refers to the intentional infliction of severe physical or psychological pain and suffering on an individual, often to coerce information, punish, intimidate, or exert control. The consequences of torture extend beyond immediate physical harm, profoundly affecting the victim's mental and emotional well-being, sometimes for the rest of their life.

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TOT is the abbreviations of Tip-of-the-tongue state, an experience of trying to remember something that is known to be stored in memory but that cannot readily be retrieved.

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Total communication refers to an approach to language education for the deaf in which oral language is combined with a signing or gestural system.

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Total environmental allergy syndrome is a newly identified phenomenon that refers to a polysymptomatic disorder associated with immune system dysfunction and allergy-like sensitivity to many compounds found in chemicals, foods, clothing, perfumes, and substances found in the air. Total environmental allergy syndrome is also called Environmental illness.

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Total institutions refer to facilities from which individuals can rarely come and go, and in which communal life is intense and circumscribed. Individuals in total institutions tend to eat, sleep, play, learn, and worship, as an example, together.