Mental Health and Mental Disorder


MENTAL HEALTH

Mental health is the level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness. It is the state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, inter-generational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others". The WHO further states that the well-being of an individual is encompassed in the realization of their abilities, coping with normal stresses of life, productive work, and contribution to their community.

Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.


MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISORDER



Mental health is the successful performance of the mental function resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and providing the ability to adapt to change and cope with adversity. The term mental disorder refers collectively to all diagnosable mental disorders — health conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior associated with distress or impaired functioning. Mental health and mental disorder are two continuous concepts. People with optimal mental health can also have a mental disorder, and people who have no mental illness can also have poor mental health.


MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS



1. “Mental health Awareness means recognizing that mental illness is as real as any physical illness.

2. “It means recognizing that mental illness affects not only the individual, but everyone from friends and families to entire communities, no matter how big or small.

3. “It means educating people on what mental illness means, how to prevent it, and to remove the stigma about it.

4. “To be sensitive and knowledgeable about brain diseases. To advocate for mental health by being against stigma and prejudice.

5. “Mental illness awareness means bringing down the walls of stigma by sharing our experiences, stories, and truths. It means educating others on what mental illness REALLY is, and helping those with illnesses know they are not alone.” 

6. “Mental health awareness means that we are not only acknowledging that mental health is important, but we’are talking about it, putting it out there so that people who feel too much can get the help they need too.

7. “Awareness is the acceptance and understanding of something, in part or whole. It means learning about mental illness and being familiar with the vernacular of the movement.  It means accepting the medical nature of it and not asking that people ‘get over it,’ when the solution is much more complex. At its finest, awareness also involves advocacy.”

 8. “Educating people to reduce stigma and improve quality of life for those with mental illness and their families.

9. “It means the knowledge that mental disorders are not illusions formed by one’s brain due to boredom or lack of personality. It means the understanding of the fact that depression is difficult to conquer. It means the ability to appreciate the effort of living and caring. It means all of those things and better yet it means the difficulty of faking a smile and going through the day without complaining.” – 

10. “It means to educate myself to the extent that I can separate the person from the illness.” 


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