What Is Mental Health And Who Is In Control Of It?
By McDonald, T . | Date 3rd of October 2018 Mental health is a phrase banded about by more and more people. Mental health encompasses a wide range of disorders listed in the international classification of disorders (ICD 10) and in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM 5) Recently I was asked on social media by Wendy Dignan , ‘How do I maintain a balanced mental health ?’ This is a perplexing question since it is firstly difficult to explain what mental health is and secondly why should we assume that mental health is something that has a balance and is solely in our control ? What is Mental Health? Firstly, how can mental health be described ; what is mental health? Is it something to do with the way a person feels or is it more to do with how a person copes under stress? If it is to do with how a person feels, surely it is easy to heal people and if it is to do with stress then why do some of the most successful people with no stress su