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What is Mental Health?
Mental Health: Not Just the Absence of Mental Disorders
Many of us think that mental health only defines those people who have mental disorders that are diagnosable. The fact is, each and every one of us ought to be concerned about our mental health. It is the foundation for total body health. It is considered by some to be the holistic approach to our health. In fact, many people hold to the belief that the core of healthiness begins with our mental health. They believe that total body health begins and ends with mental health. Our mental wellbeing is everybody's business and it encompasses everything.
For far too many people, mental health is frequently neglected until it appears that something has gone wrong. If and when that happens, we will have to wait and watch for signs that it is central to our very existence, to our personal relationships with other people in our life, to our life's fulfillment, to our well being, to our worldly perceptions, and even to our own joy and contentment.
Although we have had great medical achievements and advancements in the area of physical health, there still seems to be a huge void in our general knowledge and understanding on the subject of mental health. And even though doctors and scientists have developed quick fixes to a multitude of our physical ailments, we appear to be losing the struggle with our solutions to cure or even understand mental illnesses. Whenever we think we have anything close to a cure, there still remain too many loopholes that can't be closed or solutions to our mental health disorders that we know to be inconclusive. Except for the over-used practice of numbing mental health patients with mood altering drugs, we have as yet to develop any universal treatments for the growing number of cases of psychological disorders. The reason may be because the assessments and diagnosis of mental health disorders are flawed.
In the past, the "absence of disease" was the general concept for being considered to be healthy. By using that way of thinking or reasoning, then someone who experience's irrational fear on something like heights or closed in spaces, but doesn’t have a diagnosable heart attack is considered a healthy person. The answer to that is an emphatic no.
While, fluctuations in our body temperature, blood pressure and cholesterol levels are easy to assess, these are still seen as gauges to our physical health. Disruptions (higher or lower) in any of these mechanisms may indicate that a person has developed a physical illness. Conversely, a person's health is also associated with how well his emotional, psychological, and social dispositions are, not just to how well his body functions physically. Sadly, there are those in the medical field who tend to leave mental health issues out of the overall total health equation far too often. Since most symptoms of mental health disorders arise unnoticeably during the early stages of the disorders, manifestations of mental illness are a great deal more difficult to assess. An example of this can be seen in people who usually feels "blue". How many of them are diagnosed or even assessed for the devastating disease called depression? Far too many of these people will never find out that they have a mental health disorder until it is too late. Some of them may never find out.
Mental health has a social aspect that we need to take into consideration. People who are physically ill are more apt to have more obvious outward manifestations that they are ill, therefore the immediate environment and society as a whole could without difficulty identify whether or not a person had an illness and what it was. With that said, the appearance of HIV and AIDS has made this more difficult. From the beginning, people with mental health disorders have been treated much like HIV and AIDS victims of the early years were. Because, ignorance usually leads to wrong perceptions, mental health patients are too often mistakenly shunned by society. For example, a depressed teenager who became dependent upon drugs and later committed suicide is all too often judged by society as being both desperate and irresponsible, when in fact, if they had taken the time to find out would have seen that he was suffering from a mental health disorder called depression.
A very basic definition to mental health could be someone who has "successful mental functioning". But what could possibly tell us that someone is struggling with their mental health with this definition? How can it describe someone who is living with a mental illness?
1) Someone who relies on controlling substances such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes may have issues on their mental health.
2) Someone who has altered moods and behaviors.
3) Someone who has disruptions in their thought processes.
4) Someone who has impaired social functions.
5) Someone who is distressed for an extended period of time without any apparent or logical reason.
These are just a few descriptions of how society might see a person with a mental health condition to act or behave. However, these actions and/or behaviors are not conclusive enough to say a person has a mental health disorder. Someone who occasionally partakes of alcoholic beverages may easily behave in much the same way as some of these descriptions is not necessarily suffering from any mental health disorders.
Hopefully, medicine, science and society will begin to understand mental health better because it is essential for our overall health in the end.
TOTAL BODY HEALTH = PHYSICAL HEALTH + MENTAL HEALTH
If either of our physical or mental health suffers, our total body health suffers. In the end they are equally as important to us.
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