There are standards for mental health. Here are several criteria to measure mental health. Check your mental health against yourself:
1. Know yourself and accept yourself.
Mentally healthy people can experience the value of their existence, understand themselves, accept themselves, and make appropriate and objective evaluations of their abilities, personalities, advantages and disadvantages; Self-confidence, optimism, realistic life goals and ideals can foster strengths and avoid weaknesses.
2. Accept others and be willing to associate.
Mentally healthy people are willing to associate with others, can accept others, can get along with others with respect, trust, friendship and tolerance, can share, accept and give love and friendship, can work with others and have harmonious interpersonal relationships.
3. Face up to reality and accept it
People with mental health can face the reality, accept the reality and actively adapt to it. Have ideas higher than reality, will not indulge in unrealistic fantasies and extravagant hopes, and have full confidence in their own strength.
4. Love life and work actively
People with mental health can cherish and love life, enjoy the fun of life in life, and give full play to their personality and intelligence as much as possible in their work.
5. Be able to control emotions and be happy.
People with mental health can always maintain a happy, optimistic, cheerful and satisfied attitude, and can properly express and control their emotions. They are not crazy about happiness, not worried, not arrogant when they win, not humble when they fail, and have self-respect and self-respect.
6. Integrity and unity of personality
The personality structure of a mentally healthy person includes the balanced development of temperament, personality, ability and ideal, the harmony of thought, behavior and speech, a positive outlook on life, the ability to keep pace with society and the integration with the collective.
7. Psychological behavior conforms to age characteristics.
People with mental health should have psychological and behavioral characteristics consistent with the age characteristics of most people. Teenagers should be energetic, curious, quick-thinking and like to explore.
Second, maintain mental health.
Mental health is very important, and maintaining mental health is very important for the growth of teenagers. The following methods can help us maintain mental health:
1. Know yourself and accept yourself.
Accept the reality of yourself, choose appropriate goals, seek good methods, don't flinch at will, and do things that you can't chew, so as to shape your ideal self; Accept yourself gladly, which can avoid psychological conflicts and emotional anxiety, make people feel comfortable and healthy.
2. Face the reality and adapt to the environment
People with mental health can always keep good contact with reality. They can give full play to their ability to transform the environment and make the external reality conform to their subjective wishes; Under the circumstances beyond their power, they can choose another goal or re-select methods to adapt to the real environment. The biggest feature of psychopathy is to be divorced from reality or escape from reality. They may have beautiful ideals, but they can't really estimate their abilities and ignore objective laws, so their ideals become castles in the air, so they complain about others or feel sorry for themselves and escape from reality.
3. Make friends and be kind to others.
Being willing to associate with others and establishing good relations with others are essential conditions for mental health. But don't be naive to think that he will treat me like I treat him. In fact, this is a kind of thinking of children, but adults often can't get rid of it. The principle of getting along with others is: be worthy of others and yourself. For those who have proved unable to make bosom friends, we might as well make bosom friends. We don't have to hate each other, but we should keep a proper distance.
4. Work hard and learn to relax.
The greatest significance of work is not limited to the return of material life. From the psychological point of view, it also has two meanings for individuals: ① work can show personal value, get psychological satisfaction and get a sense of accomplishment; Work can make people express themselves in groups, thus improving their social status. Individuals should be accepted and recognized in the group, improve their status, and work performance is the best standard to compare with others.
In addition, the pace of life in modern society is tense, so we should arrange our leisure time reasonably, change our ways frequently, and take part in more professional or social activities. It is necessary to make leisure days more colorful and truly become an opportunity to restore physical strength, adjust brain power, increase knowledge and gain health.