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Is Mental Health Illness Or WELLBEING?
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..... is it about

Individuals 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 your brain and behaviour
A term that is clearly a label to describe insanity, madness, weird people
Pathologies like depression, schizophrenia.
As well as the Mental Health department in your State's Health Department?
The World Health Organization defines mental health as "circumstances of well-being w here the individual realizes his / her own abilities, can deal with the normal stresses of life, could work productively and fruitfully, and is able to contribute to his or her community."

Not the initial thing that makes many people's minds with that phrase could it be?

Area of the problem is the actual term 'mental health' - it conjures up images of illness, the word health is the opposite of illness - if we have health, we have wellness, not illness.

Formally, it is just a term used to spell it out either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and efforts to accomplish psychological resilience.

The problem lies in the word itself - it isn't accurately descriptive of what this means
So perhaps mental wellbeing or wellness is more to the point when encouraging or doing something positive about your own inner health.

Mental good health can even be defined as an absence of a major mental condition (for instance, among the diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, IV) though recent evidence stemming from positive psychology suggests mental health is a lot 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 - consider the tremendous technological, pharmaceutical and research advances occurring every day.

Consider all the resources for physical health we have 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 take steps to ensure we avoid infections, injury and organic conditions (e.g. heart) - yet what do we do in order to avoid negative effects on our mental wellness?

So do you consider of your own inner health as it were? And look after it?

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

In families, do we put just as much conscious concentrate on mental well being as we do on physical health. Many know lots about good physical well being 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 approach to our anatomies, lives and society. We too readily compartmentalize - and put mental health in to the too hard basket or just neglect it.

We've 'abnormalized' mental health, rather than seeing it as vital that you our wellbeing and a normal part of life - even though someone suffers from a mental illness.

Individuals who suffer adverse mental well being conditions are still 'normal' people - just as an injured person is 'normal, or simply 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
Here's my website: https://thenewestdeal.org/varicella-and-shingles/