What is health and mental health?

The World Health Organization defines health as: "Health is a state of physical, mental and social adaptation, not the absence of disease and weakness." From the definition of health by the World Health Organization, it is obviously different from our traditional understanding: it contains three basic elements: (1) physical health; (2) Mental health; (3) Social adaptability. Social adaptability is an internationally recognized primary standard of mental health. Overall health includes physical health and mental health, which are closely related, indispensable and inseparable. This is the essence of the concept of health. Many people think that physical health and mental health are two unrelated concepts. In fact, this is not correct. In real life, mental health and physical health are interrelated and interactive, and mental health affects people's physical health all the time. If a person is withdrawn and psychologically depressed for a long time, it will affect the secretion of hormones and reduce people's resistance, and diseases will take advantage of it. If a healthy person always doubts what's wrong with him, he will be depressed all day, and eventually he will really get sick. Therefore, in daily life, on the one hand, we should pay attention to reasonable diet and physical exercise, on the other hand, we should cultivate our own sentiments, broaden our minds and avoid being in a tense emotional state for a long time. If you feel that your mood continues to be unhappy, you should make psychological self-adjustment in time, and go to a psychological clinic or psychological counseling center for help when necessary to ensure your overall psychological and physical health. With the rapid development of natural science and the arrival of the information age, our society is undergoing unprecedented changes. The degree of industrialization, modernization, socialization and integration has been continuously improved; People's life is getting faster and faster, time is getting more and more precious, and people are making more and more money; There are more and more independent, creative and advanced intellectual labor; The range of people's activities is constantly expanding, and there are more and more contacts between people. Everyone inevitably has to deal with subtle and complicated interpersonal relationships. The intensity of all kinds of competition is becoming more and more intense, and the differences in income and social status between people are becoming more and more obvious. In real life, many so-called normal people are sad and irritable all day, living on sleeping pills, struggling in depression and despair for a long time, and even heading for a dead end of suicide; There are many people who drink all day long, get drunk, hit people and swear; Many people are hostile, conflicting, litigious and criminal; Many people often catch a cold, suffer from non-organic diseases such as hypertension and arthritis, and even suffer from terminal illness and premature death; There are many people who are incompetent, frustrated, poor and pitiful; There are many students who are not good at learning; There are many people who are troubled by sexual problems; There are many people who don't get along well with others and are suspicious all day; Many families are extremely distressed by the mental illness of their members; Many couples disagree, quarrel, fight and divorce. As mentioned above, each of us should be mentally healthy, but because of the psychological damage we have suffered in the course of life. The so-called normal people in life are actually not in the best state of people, but in the sub-health state between the best state of people and diseases. In fact, we are still far from the ability endowed by nature. Living in such a complicated and chaotic environment requires people to have higher psychological quality to adapt to the requirements of the times and society. Now people have begun to realize the importance of mental health and pay more and more attention to the mental health of themselves and their relatives and friends who live with them day and night. Let's use psychological science to maintain the mental health of ourselves and our relatives and friends, work and live in a better physical and mental state and enjoy life.