What is Mental Health?

Mental health has always been a difficult term to understand or define as compared to it easier and generally recognized counterpart ‘metal illnesses’. This is because mental health has always been ignored by the people across the globe.

It is the physical health that was always given more importance.

When it comes to mental health, individuals have a general tendency to ignore their mental health until they observe something seriously wrong or awry about their usual behaviour or something similar observed by others.

Mental health is an important factor. It should be given equal importance if not more to physical health. This is how you can make sure that everything goes right.

This will keep many problems at bay including the ones that disturb you the most in your daily life such as depression, anxiety, anger, gloom, severe mood swings and a lot more.

Here are a few imperative ideas enlisted to help you identify the basic characteristics of mental health:

* Life Enjoying Calibre

It is extremely important to possess an ability to enjoy life. This is how you can ensure good mental health. One cannot lead peaceful and happy life without knowing how to pass the present time gleefully.

It is not wrong to plan an worry about future but ignoring the present worrying about future can develop into great mental pressure which when accumulated may create sever problems in the long run.

The key to keep your mind in the pink of health is to enjoy life.

* Resilience

This is something that most people tend to ignore. They do not know how important resilience is in their life. It is actually the capacity of an individual to bounce back from harsh conditions.

This is also the reason that some people are capable of handling stress better than others. 

No wonder some remain sick and tired in their life while others become successful senators in spite of the adversities they face. Coping up with stress is the key to excellent mental health and enjoying success in life.

* Equilibrium

Equilibrium is very important for good mental health. Working all the time and not giving adequate to yourself for socializing can be killing to your mental health.

No wonder we are taught the following in our childhood:

“All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy”.

You require balancing and categorizing your time in a way to get enough time for work, socialize, enjoy with family and spend time alone.

This is also known as social skill which is very important for all of us to cultivate within. Give time to sleep well, indulge in physical activities and do what you like the most.

* Flexibility

There are people who have very strict principles, beliefs and rigid opinions. No amount of convincing or discussions would change their opinion.

They may feel that they are doing their best and living up to their values but it is also true that they tend to add a lot of stress to their lives.

This affects their mental health. Life is not just about some rigid views that you create for yourself. It is about living and let others live. Exercising some flexibility can do wonders to your mental health and keep you and others happy.

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