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What is mental health?

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In your opinion.. What are the characteristics of a mentally healthy person? 


"life is not a problem to be solved ..its a mystery to be lived "

-Osho

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This is a great question and upon doing some research on personality disorders I found this definition that resonates:

A healthy personality is...:

- someone who actively masters his enviroment

- a personality that shows a certain degree of consistentcy/integrity

- ability to see oneself and the world as it really is

And I would add 'ability to work and engage in true intimacy'

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One who can do nothing for 24h peacefully without going crazy.

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5 minutes ago, Medhansh said:

You're basically implying that 99.999% of the human population is mentally sick.

Yes.

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mental health is emotional mastery + spiritual practice + moving from stress inducing things like cigerett, drugs , huge work load etc

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1 hour ago, Salvijus said:

One who can do nothing for 24h peacefully without going crazy.

Why is that the criteria? 


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The ability to focus whatever you want. The kind of person both psychiatrists and buddhist teachers try to transform you into.

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5 hours ago, AlwaysJoggin said:

@KatiesKarma according to what? 

According to Erik H. Erikson. Stumbled upon this when I was trying to understand personality disorders

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1 hour ago, Windappreciator said:

 

the degree of how much in love you are with your emotional states

 

Very true can relate alot. 


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Not just mental. What is health in general? Is there even such a thing?

How do we define a disease?

By loss of functionality? Pain? Malformation? Mismatch/Incompatibility? Or some or all of them?

It's very hard to come up with answers, because any answer is always static while reality is dynamic. Plus, even if some answers may initially seem intuitive and make sense, we can always deconstruct them so that they stop making sense and seem weird afterwards.

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@Nahm what's so special about thoughts? Why do you give them so much importance? 


"life is not a problem to be solved ..its a mystery to be lived "

-Osho

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feel - act - think = mentally unwell

feel - think - act = mentally well

:D


just be here, if you can do it this moment you can do it the next moment

this is the now, now is all that is real, the truth is now, not your concept or experience, just this

is there suffering in this ? work to be done young jedi. me

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