This week is mental health awareness week, so I think that it is only an appropriate question to ask: what is mental health? Over the years, psychology and psychiatry have used a number of different terms from Latin and Greek roots to describe behavior types that have been observed in people. But what are these people other than those who differ from the "cultural norm", which is an ever-shifting concept?
There is no set standard of mental health that anyone can be held up against. It is easy to define mental illness as "a psychiatric disorder that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others",; but I think the definition of mental health is one that is more elusive. Yes, it would by default be the opposite of mental illness, but is it not true that everyone has certain ways of thinking, feeling, mood, and relating to others? And who's decision is it if those are disruptive or not?
Think about that.
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