Mental Hygiene And Mental Health
The most talked about topic in today’s Gen z generation is promotion of mental health
Everyone is the main character of their own story we have a tendency to think that the world revolves around us but originally it revolves around sun. Haha!
We all have a separate world within ourselves in our own minds which is different from reality as you have seen memes related to this entitled as expectation versus reality The amount of satisfaction depends upon how far these two worlds are.
Whenever things doesn’t go according to the Our expectations we get disappointed and there comes the Role of positive mental health
I’ll not tell you to have no expectations but to have realistic ones because the prior is impractical and an additional thing to have with it is flexibility within our thoughts. Things will not always go our way but acceptance is the key.
There are few signs of a person with positive mental health
Through this article you may evaluate your status and these are goals for those who are struggling within the two worlds
Mentally healthy people often adjust easily to the situation and have no or short denial stage , such people are confident within themselves and know their self worth mere criticism or appreciation doesn’t affect them often they are open to take constructive criticism, mentally mature people tends to accept criticism as they accept compliments they have social skills and maintain good interpersonal relationships. They have discernment are able to take confident decisions by their own effort such people don’t seek validation in the world they feel secure in the presence of any superior personality in front of them, often show empathy and compassion for others and they are emotionally mature and have work life balance, such individuals are goal oriented.
Mentally healthy people live in a world of reality rather than fantasy.
Prof Shabana Rajkamal
NRI Institute Of Nursing Bhopal