Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mood Disorder, Suicide Prevention, Caffeine
23 Feb 2017
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Psychological health, or mental health, contributes to every dimension of wellness. It can be very difficult to maintain emotional, physical, or social wellness if you are not psychologically healthy. Psychological/mental health is out capacity to think, feel, and behave in ways that contribute to our ability to enjoy life and manage challenges. It can be supported or sabotaged by factors such as dietary choices, sleep patterns, and relationship issues. It cannot be defined as normality, being normal or close to average. It cannot be determined on the basis of symptoms (anxiety, sadness) or from the way a person looks. It is sometimes defined negatively as the absence of sickness. A positive definition would be the presence of mental wellness. *normality= the psychological characteristics attributed to the majority of people in a population at a given time. His conclusion was based on a study of a group of successful people who seemed to live at their fullest, including einstein.
