In order to ensure that we talk in the same context, communicate smoothly and avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, now, let's sort out several concepts:
"Psychological normality": excluding psychological activities with normal function or mental symptoms.
"Abnormal psychology": also known as abnormal psychology, refers to psychological activities with typical symptoms of mental disorder (commonly known as psychosis).
Obviously, "mental normality" and "mental abnormality" are talking about "having mental disorder" and "not having mental disorder". Both psychological counseling and psychiatry are concerned about whether the visitors have mental disorders.
The difference lies in: psychological counseling is to identify people without mental disorders as their own work objects;
The latter is to identify people with mental disorders and treat them as their own work objects.
"Mental health" and "mental unhealthy" belong to the category of "mental normality" and are two different concepts at the same time.
Corresponding to the concept of "mental health", the most appropriate concept is "mental unhealthy".
If "mental health" is a psychological process in dynamic balance, then "unhealthy" is a psychological process in dynamic imbalance.
Because health and unhealthy are dynamic. Under certain pressure and stimulation, a person can change from mental health to unhealthy; You can also recover from unhealthy to healthy because of your own mental rehabilitation ability and professional psychological help.
Mental health is an unstable dynamic process.
Instability is also plasticity.
The standard of mental health is an ideal state.
Pure white: healthy personality; Highly confident; adaptive
Light gray: various psychological conflicts caused by life pressure and interpersonal relationships (seeking help from psychological counselors)
Dark gray: psychological abnormality or disorder (seeking help from a second-level psychological counselor or psychiatrist with very rich clinical experience)
Pure black: mental illness (you must seek the help of a psychologist)