Mental Health
What is mental health?
Mental health can be understood as our emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. Mental health as something we all have, just like physical health. It can be viewed as the potential of our minds to:
- grow and develop
- overcome difficulties and challenges
- make the most of our abilities and opportunities
Our mental health can feel good and healthy one day, and not so good the next, for lots of different reasons. We can all experience good mental health and poor mental health, or something in between.
When we have good mental health, we feel resilient and have the ability to adapt to the ups and downs of life, navigate situations by using our strengths, and access support from the people around us. Our resilience changes depending on the situation and varies day to day. That’s why it’s important to take steps to look after our mental health.
Above is just one definition of mental health. We all have our own ways of understanding and experiencing it. Here are a couple of examples of how others view their mental health:
