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Considering Mental Health

By: Scotch Q. Ennis..

The term mental health is thrown around a lot -- this has especially been true during the few decades previous -- but mental health's complete meaning is often misunderstood. Casual discussion of mental health typically focuses on substantial mental disorders: schizophrenia illness, bipolar disease, sociopathic behavior, Alzheimer's, and other conditions. But what's excluded in conversations like this is the reality that mental health factors into everyone's life: all of us.

Thinking on mental health typically focuses on disorder. Someone who has a condition is psychologically unwell; being free of a condition makes one mentally well. This reasoning is problematic in different ways. Firstly, there are many people who do, in fact, have mental health disease go without being diagnosed. The world is full of people with undiagnosed mental conditions.

Problem number two is that the sole measure of mental health isn't just the absence of disorder. Mental health is just as much about having as not having.

Being mentally healthy means a number of things: coping successfully with the setbacks life invariably presents; healthy relationships with loved ones; functional relations regular acquaintances -- coworkers, for example; and integrating successfully into general society. These traits can certainly be absent in people who don't show symptoms or indications of mental illness.

Does lacking the ability to cope with life's challenges and social interaction imply mental illness? Not in most cases, no. However, one might be able to make the argument that dysfunction does rise to the level of mental illness, particularly where people act out, or turn to alcohol or drugs as a means of coping. Addicts or social misfits aren't typically labeled as mentally ill. Altering this reality would encourage scores to seek out mental health treatment.

The counter to opening up definitions of mental illness to include typical dysfunctions, and encouraging more mental health treatment in the process, is that it would be overkill, would be intrusive, would be comparable to medicating large segments of the population at large. But is this really true? Mental health doesn't have to be oppressive or medicating. This isn't some sort of suggestion that pharmaceuticals should be dispensed in greater quantities than they already are.

At its core, mental health treatment, should teach coping techniques, which is not the same as changing someone's reality. Keep the reality -- change the inappropriate coping strategies. This sort of an approach doesn't have to involve any kind of pharmaceutical treatment. The treatment of mental health has an extensive history, much of it having nothing to do with pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals aren't necessary to treat basic psychological or emotional function. Let's get this truth into open space, where it belongs.

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