1946 The Third International Conference on Mental Health defined mental health as: "The so-called mental health refers to the development of an individual's mental state to the best within the range of physiology, intelligence and emotion that is compatible with the mental health of others."
Domestic psychologists believe that the standards of mental health are: normal intelligence, good mood, sound will and coordinated behavior (what to do at what age).
Second, understand the opposite of mental health.
Contradictory analysis is the fundamental way to understand things. To understand mental health correctly, we must understand psychological problems and mental diseases.
1. Psychological problems are psychological states in which people cannot correctly understand and solve psychological contradictions.
A survey of students in several big cities shows that about 13% of primary school students have psychological and behavioral problems; Junior high school students are about15%; High school students are about19%; About 25% of college students; It shows an upward trend with the increase of grade.
Outstanding performance of college students' psychological problems;
The first category, inferiority/arrogance.
The second category, loneliness/showing off.
The third category, anxiety/laziness.
The fourth category, depression/hedonism.
2. Mental illness is a serious psychological problem.
Neurosis: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc. "No one will love me anymore." "I will never fall in love with anyone else again."
② Schizophrenia: nonsense, run amok. (As the saying goes, mental illness. )
Third, form an overall understanding.
Mental health-psychological problems-mental illness (trisection)
Maintain mental health, solve psychological problems and prevent mental illness.