What Is Mental Health?

What is mental health?

Mental health accommodates several facets of the overall health, such as emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects our ability of handling challenges, linking to the others, and even making choices. In fact, mental health is just as vitally important as physical health, but sometimes it is overlooked.

 What are the characteristics of mentally healthy people?

There are abundance of ways that we can describe mentally healthy people, but I might state that they have three most significant characteristics: they are happy with themselves, comfortable with other people, and able to manage their lives.

Feeling good about themselves, mentally healthy people usually maintain a more positive point of view. They can be pleased with simple, everyday things. Moreover, they accept their own ability deficiency but still have self-respect. We can imply that mentally healthy people really appreciate their lives. In the second place, they are quite more altruistic than the people with mental illness. They feel comfortable building relationships and being a part of a group. Plus, the healthy people usually have a sense of responsibility to fellow human beings. Thus, they are, and feel more connected to the others, comparing to people with mental problems. Last but not least, mentally healthy people also feel as they can control their lives. From my own experience, I think this is the golden key of every successful person in the world: as they are positive and have good relationships because they are mentally healthy, they dare to take risks, and take responsibilities of themselves; they are not easily overwhelmed by their lives. Therefore, we can tell that they meet the demands of life. And since it is one of the most powerful factor toward my future success, I am trying my best to become a more mentally healthy people.

 What are the characteristics of an emotionally intelligent person?

Daniel Goleman is the one who added the emotional aspect to the concept of intelligence that we have today. It had clarified a lot of stuff that enshrouded people’s sucess for a long time: 80% of our success is psychological, only 20% is mechanical. Thus, emotions become extremely important in the psycological part, and toward our success generally. So, what is an emotionally intelligent person like? First of all, because it is a kind of intelligence, it has something to do with perception. Hence, the first characteristic of them is their emotional perception ability. It seems like they are clear about their own feelings, and sometimes they are even able to read the others’. Besides, they can regulate their emotions as well, thus they can manage their stress and mood-swings. People with this ability usually  adapt better to new conditions around them. In the third place, emotionally intelligent person can not only perceive the others’ feeling, but also posively influence them. As they are positive and altruistic, they care and respect the others, hence make them feel better. Ultimately, emotional intelligence can help people in building social relationships. People with this kind of intelligence are most likely to build positive, personal relationships that they can rely on and be satisfied. Overall, emotions are so important that they affect almost every other aspects of our life. Nevertheless, we can always learn how to improve our emotional intelligence, by reading books, attending related workshops, etc. It can make great changes in our lives.