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Is Mental Health Illness Or Well Being?
What does your mind conjure up when you see the words 'mental health'? Yes, the phrase does reek with all sorts of connotations doesn't it!

When you think of the phrase Mental Health..... could it be about

Those people who are strange or not normal.
Mental illness is really a stigma or label to be avoided or kept quiet about
Discussing issues of incapacity of the mind and behaviour
A term that is clearly a label to spell it out insanity, madness, weird people
Pathologies like depression, schizophrenia.
And even the Mental Health department in your State's Health Department?
The World Health Organization defines mental health as "a state of well-being where the individual realizes her or his own abilities, can cope with the standard stresses of life, could work productively and fruitfully, and is able to contribute to her or his community."

Not the first thing that makes many people's minds with that phrase is it?

The main problem is the actual term 'mental health' - it conjures up images of illness, yet the word health may be the opposite of illness - if we have health, we've wellness, not illness.

Formally, this can be a term used to describe either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an lack of a mental disorder. From check here of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health can include an individual's ability to take it easy and procure a balance between lifestyle and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.

The problem lies in the word itself - it is not accurately descriptive of what it means
So perhaps mental wellbeing or wellness is moreover when encouraging or doing something positive about your personal inner health.

Mental good health can be defined as an absence of a major mental condition (for example, one of many diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, IV) though recent evidence stemming from positive psychology suggests mental health is more than the mere lack of a mental disorder or illness. Therefore the impact of social, cultural, physical and education can all affect someone's mental health.

We live in a society that takes great care of physical health or well being/wellness - look at the tremendous technological, pharmaceutical and research advances occurring every day.

Consider all of the resources for physical health we've put before us constantly - diet programs and diets, gyms and exercise programs, fitness activities, sports, obesity concerns, nutritional supplements and so on.

Yet where may be the equivalent education and push for mental wellbeing? We readily do something to make sure we avoid infections, injury and organic conditions (e.g. heart) - yet what do we do to avoid unwanted effects on our mental wellness?

So do you think of your own inner health since it were? And take care of it?

That is critically important when you consider that depression and anxiety affect so many, let alone much more serious mental illness diagnoses.

In families, do we put as much conscious focus on mental well being as we do on physical health. Many know lots about good physical wellbeing activities, but are we as informed about good mental health equivalents as we raise and teach our children.

And, what State does not have under-funded mental health department?

We have lost the concept of an holistic method of our bodies, lives and society. We too readily compartmentalize - and put mental health into the too hard basket or simply neglect it.

We have 'abnormalized' mental health, instead of seeing it as vital that you our well being and a normal part of life - even though someone is suffering from a mental illness.

People who suffer adverse mental well being conditions are still 'normal' people - in the same way an injured person is 'normal, or just as a deaf person is normal.

For info on Mental Wellbeing Issues, see us at Good Health Advice [http://www.goodhealthadvice.org]

Peter Damien Ryan
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