A lot has been said, many have tried to define and describe this term, but semingly they all seem to lose the point. First of all when defining mental health, you need to know that here we are talking about the mental health of individuals. the question to ask self is what is an individual, how is an individual, because you cannot address mental health when you do not even know the make up of the individual.The Individual The individual is a being that works or functions like a machine which largely depends or is triggered by certain inputs called stimulus which cause it to undergo some internal processes called intra personal interaction which in turn produce a product called behavior. the individual is a five parts packaged being which makes use of the collective, unified function or operation of these parts for it to survive and be counted. the five parts of the idnividual are the physical part which carries in it the five senses which are the gateway for information into the individual, without the physical part, the individual is not complete and we cannot be in a position to say whether that being can live or not, but I do not think it can. the second part is the emotional part which has to do with emotional expressions, expressions of feelings.
The third part is the Pschosocial part, which is the part responsible for the individual to interact with the external environment. the external environment of the individual beginds outside the skin. this part has to do with the kind of social gatherings this individual is found and the kind of interaction the individual has with society. The forth one is the Cognitive Part which carries the thinking, reasoning, judging faculties of the individual. learning takes place here, memory is found in this part, and it basically takes the fundamental role of controlling all actions the individual takes. the fifth part being the spiritual part, this is said to be the core of the individual, it has to do with the philosophy of the individual, what the individual believes about self and the external environment.
Mental Health is a balance between these five parts. what do I mean by balance? I mean when the individual has any of these parts poorly developed or disturbed, it actually makes the individual to be mentally unhealthy. you cannot say you are healthy when there is no sickness on your physical part, yet emotional you are sad, worried, gripped by fear and hatred. Anything that happens to any of the five parts, actually changes the internal environment's state of stability and it is in that process that the individual shows up with certain kinds of behaviors like crying.
These behaviors actually are a sign of an internal interaction between the five parts, without a strong spiritual life, and individual presents with certain kinds of behaviors when faced with circumstances and it is these behaviors that in turn kark the individual as having a mental health disorder. Mental health is when the individual has a state of equilibrium between the five parts, meaning he is managing or coping well with each and every stimuli. this therefore means when you have poor interaction with other people, you are said to be mentally unhealthy. if you dont believe or your spiritual part is not well developed, you are said to be mentally unhealthy.
IT is these kinds of individuals who are mentally unhealthy that quickly get into psychosis and they present with mental health disorders.
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