HLTH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Toilet Training, Erik Erikson, Abraham Maslow
20 Jul 2016
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Psychological health (mental health) contributes to every dimension of wellness: physical health is dependent on mental health and vice-versa, very difficult to maintain emotional, social, or even physical wellness if your not psychologically healthy. Our capacity to think, feel, and behave in ways that contribute to our ability to enjoy life and manage challenges. Supported or sabotaged by a variety of factors: dietary choices, sleep patterns, relationship issues. People with good psychological health have a positive sense of emotional and spiritual well-being: values fairness, culture, dignity, and interpersonal connections. The mere absence of mental illness does is not being mentally health: defined either negatively as the absence of illness or positively as the presence of wellness. Psychological health is not the same as psychological normality: being mentally normal simply means being close to average, your ideas and attitudes can vary tremendously without losing efficacy or feeling emotional distress. If your not meeting the average it doesn"t mean you psychologically ill.
