What is mental and emotional health? What are the characteristics of a person who is mentally and emotionally healthy?
Identify whether the following characteristics indicate good mental and emotional health or not.
Answers
Mental health, defined by the World Health Organization, is “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community”.
Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality an individual experiences. Emotional well-being is influenced by a variety of demographic, economic, and situational factors. For example, the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, lowered emotional well-being by 74%.
example :
Depression, anxiety, stress, poor body image, grief, loss, a major change in your life such as becoming a new parent can all affect your mental and emotional health and day to day living. Sometimes it is hard to know if what you are experiencing is depression or sadness, worry or anxiety.
Characteristics of Mental Health
They feel good about themselves.
They do not become overwhelmed by emotions, such as fear, anger, love, jealousy, guilt, or anxiety.
They have lasting and satisfying personal relationships.
They feel comfortable with other people.
They can laugh at themselves and with others.