WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH ?
MENTAL HEALTH Mental health is the level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness . It is the state of someone who is "functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment". From the perspectives of positive psychology or of holism , mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience . According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, inter-generational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others". The WHO further states that the well-being of an individual is encompassed in the realization of their abilities, coping with normal stresses of life, productive work, and contribution to their...