Is mental health just the absence of mental illness? Or is it something more ordinary than that?
Hmm I think that mental health is a bit more complicated than just the absence of any mental illness.
Do you think psychiatric treatment helps? Or is it often more damaging than helpful to patients?
To me, helping the mentally ill is a huge deal and there needs to be less negative stigma against people with mental illness.
Do you think the mentally ill are truly pinned with a stigma that distinguishes them from other members of society?
Absolutely, since people with mental illness are often too ashamed to admit to their family or friends that they need help because they'll think they're "crazy".
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 behavioural adjustment". From the perspectives of positive psychology or of holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life, and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self
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Peer mentoring has been shown to increase resistance to stress-related anxiety and depression in patients, or clients, affected by chronic illness or mental health issues. Mental health peer mentors and peer support groups help clients change their lifestyle and adhere to a more productive healthy lifestyle by adjusting habits and helping them realize helpful ways of coping and taking on personal responsibility. Peer mentors can also help patients prepare for medical and surgical procedures and adhere to treatment regimes