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Mental health

Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior. According to World Health Organization (WHO), it is a "state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to his or her community".[1] It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making.[2] Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others.[3] From the perspectives of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.[4] Cultural differences, personal philosophy, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines "mental health".[5] Some early signs related to mental health difficulties are sleep irritation, lack of energy, lack of appetite, thinking of harming oneself or others, self-isolating (though introversion and isolation aren't necessarily unhealthy), and frequently zoning out.[6]

disability, and suicide are ultimately the result of a combination of biology, environment, and access to and utilization of mental health treatment.

Mental illness

Public health policies can influence access and utilization, which subsequently may improve mental health and help to progress the negative consequences of depression and its associated disability.

988 (telephone number)

Abnormal psychology

Emotional resilience

Ethnopsychopharmacology

Mental environment

Mental health day

Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mental health first aid

Mental health in education

Mental health in the workplace

Mental health of Asian Americans

Self-help groups for mental health

Social determinants of mental health

Social stigma

Suicide awareness

Telemental health

World Mental Health Day

Well-being

Online Books by William Sweetser

Quotations related to Mental health at Wikiquote

Media related to Mental health at Wikimedia Commons

Mental Health by WHO

The Public Health Agency of Canada

. WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.

"Mental health and substance abuse"

National Institute of Mental Health (United States)

Mental Health in the EU

Health-EU Portal

Mental Health Department of Health (United Kingdom)