What is mental health?
Mental health means that all aspects and activities of the mind are in a good or normal state. The ideal state of mental health is to maintain an intact personality, normal intelligence, correct cognition, appropriate emotions, reasonable will, positive attitude, appropriate behavior, and good adaptability.
Mental health is affected by both heredity and environment, especially the upbringing style of the native family in childhood, which has a great impact on the development of mental health. Mental health highlights the ability to maintain good communication or cooperation with other people in social, production, and daily life, and to handle various situations that occur in life well.
Mental health self-examination
Mental health status can be roughly divided into four categories: mental health, psychological distress, psychological problems and mental illness. You can judge your current mental health status from the following common external manifestations.
Mental health
Have a positive, optimistic and consistently good attitude.
Psychological distress
Frequent feeling of loneliness; distraction, low learning efficiency; troubles in love; trouble getting along with family, teachers or classmates, etc.
Psychological problems
Some behaviors and thoughts are out of control; feeling fearful and anxious, which affects normal life; some psychological pain that is unbearable and difficult to talk about; major setbacks in interpersonal relationships; uncontrollable entertainment time, etc.
Mental illness
Long-term poor mental state, often crying for no reason; frequent thoughts of suicide; often hearing and seeing non-existent sounds or things; frequent emotional instability; great and uncomfortable changes in living habits, diet and rest over a period of time, etc.
How to relieve stress
Suggestion method
Choose the best time and consciously use language, actions, memories, imagination and various objects in the surrounding environment to implement positive suggestions for yourself, which can eliminate negative emotions, reduce psychological tension, and keep the mind calm and happy. Such as reciting famous quotes, recalling successful experiences, dressing yourself carefully, etc.
Environment-changing method
A fixed environment will make people gradually lose interest, which in turn will cause some psychological problems. Appropriate changes in the environment can stimulate people's self-confidence and enterprising spirit. For example, traveling to distant places can divert energy, channel emotions, and resolve all kinds of troubles caused by bad emotions.
Relaxation method
Choose an elegant environment, a comfortable posture, eliminate distracting thoughts, close your eyes and relax your mind as much as possible, and use stable, slow and deep breathing methods, which can indeed relieve mental tension, depression, anxiety, impatience and fatigue. When inhaling, slowly make fists with both hands and slightly bend the wrists. After inhaling, hold your breath for a while, then exhale slowly, and the muscles of the whole body will be in a relaxed state. Find a frequency that works for you to repeat your breathing.
Humor method
Humor is the "air conditioner" of the psychological environment. When you are frustrated or in an embarrassing and stressful situation, you can use humor to resolve the situation and maintain a balanced mentality. Humor is the lubricant of interpersonal relationships. It can make a heavy heart become open-minded and cheerful.
Music method
When you have anxiety, depression, tension and other negative psychological emotions, you may wish to listen to music and do a psychological "massage". Beautiful and melodious melodies can adjust your psychology and transform your emotions, such as the harmony of "Butterfly Lovers ", the joy of "Back to Back", the tranquility of " Autumn Whispers ", etc., which will relax your nervousness and anxiety and make you feel happy.
Appreciation method
Reading wonderful books and watching beautiful movies and TV dramas can easily evoke a pleasant life experience, release tension, relieve depression, and drive away boredom.
Catharsis method
Psychologists believe that catharsis is a normal psychological and physiological need of people. When you are sad and depressed, you might as well talk to a friend; you can also play a sport you like; or shout loudly in an open field, which can not only breathe fresh air, but also vent your frustrations.
