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What Is Mental Health?



What Is Mental Health?

Nowadays, we know more and more about what it means to be mentally unwell – but what exactly constitutes mental ‘health’? In this film, we’ll explore what characterises an optimally functioning mind.

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“So efficient and hushed are our brains in their day to day operations, we are apt to miss what an extraordinary and complicated achievement it is to feel mentally well. A mind in a healthy state is, in the background, continually performing a near-miraculous set of manoeuvres that underpin our moods of clear-sightedness and purpose. To appreciate what mental health might be (and therefore what its opposite involves), we might take a moment to consider some of what will be going on in the folds of an optimally-functioning mind…”

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36 Comments

  3. @ASMinor on

    I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and spoken word performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my YouTube channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤

  4. @petercollins7848 on

    I think many people have confused ‘mental health’ issues with just simple emotions. Varying emotions is part of being human and perfectly normal, this is not a mental health issue. Clinical depression, various forms of psychosis, bipolar etc are real ‘mental health’ problems. The realities of life that some people have had to face and grapple with in the past – and even now, would make this snowflake generation crumble. We definitely need to speak up to friends and family if we are really struggling, but it has all become a bit fashionable to talk about so-called ‘mental health problems’, when in fact this is just Life and we have to just get on with it and face the difficulties down!

  5. @ashishdogra1962 on

    Very well explained on mental health and its related supplements, my relative has been suffering from mental health problem and he start taken Planet Ayurveda Brahmi chyawanprash along with exercise, yogas and pranayams. Now he got too much improvement in health and concentration power.

  9. @roxannerandle9155 on

    IS MENTAL HEALTH ABOUT BEING A MAN AND KNOWING WHEN SOMEONE IS ABUSING YOU.
    WHERE A MAN SLEEPS AND REST….DOES HE CALL IT HOME.
    WHAT SO EVER IS IN 1 MAN'S HOUSE, HOW LIKELY IS IT TO BE THAT ANOTHER MAN HAD OR HAS DECORATED HIS HOME IN THAT VERY SAME ATTIRE AND FASHION.
    ARE MEN MENTALLY CHALLENGED BY INTERIOR DECORATION OR INTERIOR INFERIORITY.
    DOES HE ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE ABOUT HIS TECHNIQUE.
    HIS APPROACH AND HIS CONVERSATION.
    A MAN'S MOOD IS DICTATED BY…
    HE BEGINS TO BELIEVE IN PASSION AT THIS AGE BECAUSE….
    A MAN FAILS TO EXPERIENCE FALLING IN LOVE BECAUSE…..
    A MAN LEARNS TO APPRECIATE THE SUGGESTION OF OTHER MEN AS INSPIRATION OR INSIGHT INTO BETTER OVERALL PERFORMANCE BECAUSE…..
    SO WHERE DOES A MAN BECOME MENTALLY CHALLENGED AND DISTURBED.
    DOES HE CARE TO DISCUSS THAT.
    AND HAS HE APPROVED OF HIMSELF AS BEING IN NEED OF SOME ASSISTANCE.

  11. @glynnispitcher9423 on

    ( REHAB TIME! ) MENTAL. EMOTIONAL AND PHYSCIAL SYMPTOM R MESSAGES. THEY R INFORMATION. THEY R NOT PERMANENT DIAGNOSIS FOR EU TO HAVE TO SPEND THE REST OF UR LIFE MANAGING.. FACTS OVA FEELINGS!

  12. @lazarusblackwell6988 on

    Most people have mental health problems.

    Because we live unnaturally.

    Or better say: We DONT live.

    We are forced to exist in a box when we were made to be free.

    We sense the insanity of other people so we avoid them just so their insanity would not harm us.

    Since people are everywhere,it is really hard to avoid them.

    On top of it all the government,corporations,religions all want a piece of us on a daily basis.

    They all demand that we give them money from our boxes or else they will make our lives very miserable.

    (more miserable then we already are)

  14. @crazed_legacy on

    If you’ve ever suffered through mental health battles, then I think you’ll be able to relate to the song in my most recent video. We’re not alone. We’re in this together 💚

  15. @ushojedi on

    Mental health has diminished in proportion to the rise of noise pollution. Bleeping alarms attack our central nervous system and cause the body to shut down to protect itself. Health and safety and reversing alarms are destroying mental health.

  25. @lihamedi8363 on

    In contrast to public impressions, involuntary treatment is a staple of all medical care for severe and life-threatening conditions.
    There are hundred thousands of people in urgent need of treatment and often refuse it.
    Families and communities suffer because most not-affected populations think we are taking away basic human rights in a case of involuntary treatment.

    Consider, for instance, an unconscious victim of a car accident who is severely injured. Do we wait on treatment? Do we wonder if the person really wants treatment? Of course not. Medical professionals simply proceed with the type of treatment that most individuals would choose in such a situation. Doctors and nurses opt to intervene to preserve life and restore health, as much as they are able. As the injured individual returns to normal consciousness, they can decide for themselves whether to accept or reject further treatment.
    As of now we wait until a horrible act is revealed then we consider incarceration or hospitalization.
    Unfortunately involuntary treatment raises the specter of coercive psychiatry, and the image of the psychiatrist as a power-hungry sadist. It revives and reinforces the hoary impression that the psychiatrist is an enforcer of social control rather than as a healer of the mind. And this is an image that very few psychiatrists wish to revisit.
    We need prevention instead of punishment, crime and misery.
    We need much more funds for faster research for more aimed mental treatment. We need to treat before the mental illness grows more since most mental illnesses are progressive.
    We need to diminish sale of illicit drugs and alcohol and a drastic public education of all mental/addiction illnesses.
    Please help millions by raising awareness and let’s take action and help US to heal. 95% of crime and reckless behavior is due temporary and chronic mental illnesses.
    Please let me know how I can help.

    Anosognosia, this is The inability to understand that you are ill. It is very common among the most severely mentally ill. They are unable to make an informed decision about treatment for their illness because they are not aware that the illness exists.
    Unfortunately, mental health “advocates” and patient “autonomy” experts do not consider anosognosia in their treatment recommendations. For this reason, the most extreme of mentally ill individuals will never receive any care. All they need to do is say, “I’m not ill,” and their wishes are respected, even though it is obvious that they are indeed desperately ill—but unaware of it. Is that really autonomy? No. Because if these patients knew they were ill, they would actually seek out and demand treatment. It’s like refusing to do a blood test and letting patients believe they don’t have cancer. You are doing them no favors by allowing them to live a dangerous lie.
    What happens when a mom is sick? What happens when her children and the entire family is traumatized and suffering and unable to escape the suffering as mom does crazy acts and remains untreated? What if she pulls out smoke detectors, nails windows shut, wallpapers with tin foil, hoards newspapers, and throws out all the food because “it all has poison in it?” What then?
    Well it turns out that the family members have zero rights at all. Everything is about the rights of the mentally ill person to psychologically abuse, torture, endanger, and destroy the others and themself in the home. The ONLY escape for the family is perjury, lying to the court about homicidal or suicidal threats in order to get the family member a 72 hour hold and maybe—MAYBE a sweet, precious injection of antipsychotic that will bring a bit of normalcy until it wears off a month later.
    Everything allows the mentally ill person to destroy the life of everyone and themself.

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