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A Consideration Of Mental Health By Expert Author: Scotch Q. Ennis..
View Summary \| Submitted: 2007-07-05 \| Word Count: 481 words \| Views: 43 view(s)

Mental health is a term thrown about a lot -- true particularly over the last few decades -- but the full meaning of mental health is typically overlooked. When casual discussions of mental health occur, the focus is often on serious mental disorders: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, sociopathic behavior, and even Alzheimer's. What's left out in such conversations is that mental health is a factor is all of our lives: every one of us.

The emphasis when considering mental health is usually about disorder. The presence of a condition means a person is mentally unwell;lacking a condition means mental health is in order. A couple of problems exist with thinking this way. The first is that many people who actually do have mental disorders don't get diagnosed. There are scores of undiagnosed mentally ill in the world.

Secondly, optimal mental health isn't only the absence of a mental condition, or the presentation of symptoms. Mental health isn't solely about not having: it's just as equally about having.

Optimal mental health means being successfully able to cope with life setbacks; having productive and healthy interactions with family members and friends; having, at the very least, functional relationships with co-workers and other informal acquaintances; and being able to successfully acclimate to society. These are elements that can certainly be lacking in someone without any sort of identifiable mental or emotional illness.

So if one lacks the ability to productively cope with the setbacks and the interactions that are inherent to existence, are they considered mentally ill? Generally not, though one might make an argument that this sort of dysfunction is, in fact, mental illness. This may be especially true in cases where individuals act out in response to an inability to cope, or use alcohol or narcotics as coping methods. Addicts or people who are hostile or withdrawn in social interactions aren't generally labeled mentally ill. Changing this would encourage scores of people to seek psychological 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.

Mental health treatment, at its core, should emphasize the teaching of coping techniques. This is different than changing a person's reality. Let the reality remain the same: just change the dysfunctional strategies and methods people use to cope. This approach needn't involve using pharmaceutical treatment at all. Mental health treatment has a long history, and during much of that history pharmaceuticals weren't even available. People don't need to use pharmaceuticals to treat basic emotional and psychological functioning. Let's get that truth out in the open, where it belongs.

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