Mental Health

Mental health is a level of psychological well-being, or an absence of a mental illness. It is the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.

From the perspective of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life, and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.

 Mental illnesses are more common than cancer, diabetes, or heart disease. Over 26 percent of all Americans over the age of 18 meet the criteria for having a mental illness. Serious mental disorders affect an estimated 6 percent of the adult population, or approximately 1 in 17 people. A little more than half receive treatment. A WHO report estimates the global cost of mental illness at nearly $3 trillion in 2010, with a projected increase to over $6 trillion by 2030.

Mental health and stability is a very important factor in a person’s everyday life. Social skills, physical skills, and someone’s way of thinking are just some of the things that the human brain develops at an early age.

 Learning how to interact with others and how to focus on certain subjects are essential lessons to learn from the time we can talk all the way to when we are so old that we can barely walk. However, there are some people out there who have difficulty with these kind of skills and behaving like an average person.