What exactly is mental health? Is there a uniform standard?

Mental health: In the most general sense, it refers to people's psychology, that is, the internal relationship of knowledge, emotion and will is consistent, and the psychological content is unified with the objective world, which can promote the balance of the internal and external environment of the human body and the state that individuals want to adapt to the social environment, so as to continuously develop sound personality, improve the quality of life and maintain exuberant energy and happy mood.

Ten standard theories of mental health

1986, Guo Nianfeng put forward ten standards in the book Introduction to Clinical Psychology:?

(A) periodic rhythm

People's psychological activities have certain forms and internal rhythms of efficiency.

(B) the level of meaning

The level of meaning is often based on the degree of concern. .

(3) suggestibility

People who are susceptible to suggestion are often easily caused by irrelevant factors in the surrounding environment, their thinking is shaken, and sometimes their willpower is weak. Their mood and thinking easily change with the environment, which brings unstable characteristics to their psychological activities.

Intensity of psychological activity

This refers to the ability to resist mental stimulation. Strong mental shock appears in front of us, and different people have different reactions to the same mental stimulus, showing different people's resistance to mental stimulus.

(5) Tolerance of psychological activities

What I said earlier is the ability to resist sudden powerful mental stimulation. But there is another kind of spiritual stimulation in real life, which appears repeatedly in life for a long time and haunts people's minds almost every day. This kind of chronic and long-term mental stimulation can torture a person for a lifetime or make a person suffer for a long time. They can make brilliant achievements in adversity that others can't stand. We regard the ability to resist long-term mental stimulation as an indicator of a person's mental health level, which is called tolerance.

(6) Psychological rehabilitation ability

No one can avoid mental trauma in one's life. After mental trauma, there will be great emotional fluctuations, temporary changes in behavior, and even some physical symptoms.

(7) Psychological self-control

The intensity of emotion, the expression of emotion, the direction and process of thinking are all realized under people's conscious control. The so-called involuntary emotions, emotions and thoughts are only relative. They are all random, but the level is not too high to be detected. The randomness of psychological activities and processes and the level of conscious control are related to self-control ability.

(8) Confidence

When a person is faced with a life event or work task, it is inevitable to estimate his coping ability first. This kind of self-evaluation has two tendencies, one is overestimation and the other is underestimation.

(9) Social communication

The emergence and maintenance of human spiritual activities are based on full social communication. The deprivation of social communication will inevitably lead to mental breakdown and various abnormal psychology. Therefore, a person's social interaction with others often marks a person's mental health level.

(10) environmental adaptability

In a sense, psychology is a tool to adapt to the environment, and people must adapt to the environment for individual preservation and racial continuation.

In a person's life, these environmental conditions are changing, sometimes greatly. Although people have initiative, sometimes they are unable to change the bottom-up environment. At this time, the so-called negative adaptation is also very important, at least in a certain period or stage. When the living environment suddenly changes, whether a person can adapt quickly to maintain psychological balance is the ability of people to adapt to the environment, which often marks the healthy level of a person's psychological activities.