What Is Mental Health?
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
Positive mental health allows people to realise their full potential, cope with the stresses of life, work productively, and make meaningful contributions to their communities.
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Untreated mental illness causes one to have troubles coping with daily routines and demands.
Importance of Mental Health
Mental illness is any disease or condition that influences the behaviorial or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning (eg the way a person thinks, feels, behaves, and/or relates to others and to his or her surroundings).