Mental health

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Mental health refers to a person's emotional, psychological, and social well-being and encompasses their cognitive and emotional functioning in relation to others and their environment.

- "Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior."
- "According to World Health Organization (WHO), it is a 'state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to his or her community.'"
- "It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making."
- "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others."
- "From the perspectives of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience."
- "Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines 'mental health'."
- "Some early signs related to mental health difficulties are sleep irritation, lack of energy, lack of appetite, and thinking of harming oneself or others."
- "It also includes self-isolating and frequently zoning out."
- "Mental health encompasses... can contribute to his or her community."
- "Mental health may include an individual's ability... to achieve psychological resilience."
- "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence..."
- "Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines 'mental health'."
- "It likewise determines how an individual handles... decision-making."
- "It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships..."
- "From the perspectives of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities..."
- "Some early signs related to mental health difficulties are... thinking of harming oneself or others."
- "It also includes self-isolating and frequently zoning out."
- "According to World Health Organization (WHO), it is a 'state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully..."
- "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy..."
- "Mental health includes... self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential..."