A state of being that is relative rather than absolute. The successful performance of mental functions shown by productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity.
The best indices of mental health are simultaneous success at working, loving, and creating with the capacity for mature and flexible resolution of conflicts between instincts, conscience, important other people, and reality.
The quality of one’s psychological dimension of health which makes it possible to function effectively with self and others.
The capacity in an individual to form harmonious relations with others; to participate in, or contribute constructively to, changes in his social and physical environment; and to achieve a harmonious and balanced satisfaction of his own potentially conflicting instinctive drives— harmonious in that it reaches an integrated synthesis rather than the denial of satisfaction to certain instinctive tendencies as a means of avoiding the thwarting of others. This attempt at a definition should be compared with that of health. Mental health is a concept influenced by both biological and cultural factors and highly variable in definition, time and place. It is often operatively defined as the absence of any identifiable or significant mental disorder, and sometimes perversely used as a synonym for mental illness (for instance in speaking of coverage of ‘mental health benefits’ under NIII) apparently because it is thought to be a more genteel term.
The condition of someone’s mind.
The state of being of the individual with respect to emotional, social, and behavioral maturity. Although the term is often used to mean “good mental health,” mental health is a relative state, varying from time to time in the individual, with some people more mentally healthy than others.
Psychological adjustment to one’s circumstance or environment; the ability to cope with or make the best of changing stresses and stimuli. Individuals are considered mentally healthy if they have adjusted to life in such a way that they are comfortable with themselves and, at the same time, are able to live so that their behavior does not conflict with their associates or the rest of society. Inherent in this, for most individuals, are feelings of self-worth and accomplishment and the ability to be gainfully employed with sufficient reward for that employment to satisfy economic needs.
The state of mental well-being in which one can cope with the demands of daily.
The sense of uncertainty about one’s identity and values that some people experience in the middle of their lives.
The state of being comfortable with oneself, with others, and with one’s surroundings.