MENTAL HEALTH
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A person who is free from tension, anxiety and stress, who is able to interact well and maintain good interpersonal relationship and adjust with people and environment is called a mentally healthy person. A mentally healthy person lives a happier, harmonious and effective life. But now a days, the world become more mentally unhealthy.
The reasons for mental unhealthiness:
1. Lack of adjustment- when a person doesn’t adjust with their events of life (like office, family, economy, etc.) He will suffer his mental health.
2. Lack of confident- when a person do not have confident in doing work, etc., he become very anxious.
3. Doesn’t understand and cope with the inadequate abilities.
4. Increasing competition in all industries.
5. Unsatisfied social relations.
Characteristics of a mentally healthy person are: - He is fully matured mentally.
- He is adaptable.
- He is socially adequate and adjustive.
- He has impulses and desires which are in harmony with socially approved goals.
- He is fully aware of his strength and weaknesses.
- He is able to control emotions.
- He has stable personality qualities.
- He is generally happy in spite of his shortcomings.
- He is independent in his actions, thinking, and decisions.
- He has self-confidence.
- He has eager attention to new tasks.
- He has positive attitude towards life and people.
- He is emotionally stable, happy reasonable and tolerant.
Some suggestions for enhancing good mental health: - It is important to preserve good physical health in order to preserve good mental health.
Satisfying social relations is a prerequisite not only for person’s mental health, but also for his very humanity. - A Confident: Each individual needs at least one other person in whom he can confide his innermost secrets and problems. Without such a confident a person can feel alone. A thousand acquaintances cannot fill the need felt for one close, intimate friend. It is with his intimate confident that a person able to realize his full potential to love and beloved.
- A normal, healthy person reaches a balance between the time he spends with other people and the time he spends alone in private work and thought.
- Personal worth: A person must be able to accept himself as a person of worth and to give himself the respect due such a person. The feelings of inferiority and insecurity are prevent and block the development of self-esteem.
- Insight: A person must learn to evaluate realistically all his behavior. A normal person naturally makes a constant and continual effort to have insight into his actions. He realizes that objectivity about himself allows him to meet the demands of reality satisfactorily.
- Activities that enhance the feeling of being a useful and creative person, volunteer work, crafts gardening and community activities- are beneficial even if they are not remunerative.
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