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.
Anti-psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is more often damaging than helpful to patients. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient and a highly subjective diagnostic process. It has been active in various forms for two centuries.
Anti-psychiatry originates in an objection to what some view as dangerous treatments. Examples of historically dangerous treatments include electroconvulsive therapy, insulin shock therapy, and brain lobotomy. A more recent concern is
a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community". Mental Health is not just the absence of mental illness.
Mental illness is described as 'the spectrum of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral conditions that interfere with social and emotional well-being and the lives and productivity of people. Having a mental illness can seriously impair, temporarily