50 words of mental health content

The core of mental health is that cognition is adapted to reality, emotions are stable and controllable, behavior conforms to public order and good customs, the ability to properly handle interpersonal relationships, the ability to adjust independently when encountering setbacks, and no continued inner pain or functional impairment.

I have been working as a grassroots psychological service provider for four years, and nine out of ten cases I come into contact with have misunderstandings about this matter. Many people assume that "not crazy or sick means they are mentally healthy." They either regard occasional emo as a sign that the sky is falling, or they persist in carrying emotional problems and refuse to seek help, which has led to many detours.

Last month, a girl who worked in Internet operations came to me and said that she didn’t want to talk after working overtime on a project for a week in a row. She read the messy “Depression Self-Assessment Form” online and was so scared that she cried, thinking that something was wrong with her. In fact, she suffered from short-term career exhaustion. After two days off, she went to a country park with her friends to climb half a mountain and had a hot hot pot meal, and she regained her status.

In fact, the academic community does not have a completely unified view on the criteria for determining mental health. Counselors with a psychoanalytic orientation will pay more attention to the degree of reconciliation of inner conflicts. Cognitive-behavioralists pay more attention to whether there are unreasonable beliefs that deviate from reality. Humanism places "self-acceptance" in a very important position. There is no absolute right or wrong, and the judgment that adapts to the individual's state is reasonable.

Oh, by the way, don’t believe those standardized templates on the Internet that “doing these things means mental health”. I have also met people who are recognized by everyone as “cheerful people”. They are always the mood team at parties and are friendly to everyone. In private, they have been suffering from insomnia for almost half a year, and they have to practice for half an hour to make reasonable work requests to colleagues. His state of deliberately suppressing his true emotions is what needs adjustment.

To put it bluntly, mental health is like our physical state. It is normal to have headaches and fever occasionally. If you can't relieve it, talk to a professional. There is no need to feel any psychological burden. After all, everyone gets tired sometimes.