Aspects of mental health and characteristic signs of a healthy personality

Psychic human health should be considered as a complex of full psychosomatic functions, thanks to which a person is able to painlessly adapt to all sorts of stress, unexpected situations, to be active, efficient, cheerful and full forces. Mental health is the determinant of the overall state of well-being and harmony, which is impossible to achieve without relevant internal motivation, self-confidence, inherent calm and comprehension. The concept of mental health is contrasted with mental disabilities, disorders and diseases arising from an improper lifestyle, experienced strong stress, overwork and in rare cases of genetic susceptibility to a certain type of psychosomatic disease.

The issue of mental health of the population today is acute in every country of the world. According to the World Health Organization, about 15% of the inhabitants of the planet need emergency psychiatric care and the treatment of mental illness. Among the amount of this number, 25% is given to psycho-emotional problems of residents of the Russian Federation, which compared with the 1990s statistics was 2 times more today. Mental health and emotional state of Russian citizens annually worsens an average of 2.5%. In the first place there are patients with non-psychotic emotional disorders (48, 1%), followed by patients with psychosis and progressive dementia (27.3%), the rest of the same part constitutes mentally retarded patients (24.6%). Experts argue that since the early 1990s, and to this day, the number of patients suffering from bipolar affective disorder, epileptic seizures and schizophrenia has significantly increased. In the list of mental illness in 1992 there was a new term - social and stress disorders arising from sharp unexpected vitality.

The mental health of the citizens of the Russian Federation is at high risk due to frequent cases of drinking alcohol and excessive smoking. It is known that alcohol and nicotine have a destructive effect on the neurons of the brain and the nerve cells of the whole organism, paralyzing with the time the harmonious work of the entire central nervous system. The abuse of alcohol or the use of various poisoning toxic substances does not only lead to psycho-emotional disorders, but also provokes the occurrence of a number of incurable diseases of both neurotic and physiological nature. Therefore, the task of any state, including Russia, is to carry out study activities and the implementation of a number of actions aimed at ensuring social stability and thus the mental health of each resident of the country.

World Health Organization Programs and Measures

Objectives, tasks and measures necessary to maintain the socio-psychological state of personality are determined by the World Health Organization in a general order for all countries of the world. In the WHO Action Plan, the main criteria of mental health are laid, the observance of which will allow each person to feel full vitality, energy and ability to work. Among the criteria should be allocated as:

awareness of the individual of his physical and psychological "I", the preservation of its constancy and identity;
moderation in the experience of certain situations;
adequate psychological response to occurring events, situations, changes in the social environment;
the presence of self-criticalness expressed in a critical attitude towards itself, its activities and the results obtained;
the ability to manage their own behavior in accordance with the rules and laws adopted in the social society;
planning your own life and the implementation of all planned plans;
the ability to adapt to changes in social environment and life situations.

The achievement of all of the above criteria is impossible without creating a foundation to strengthen and stabilize the psychological state of the individual. Mental health necessarily needs support for such events:

Compliance with the measures defined by the World Health Organization, within the framework of state and regional work, will allow to preserve the mental health of each resident for many years or effectively restore the already lost positive psychological state by promoting various rehabilitation centers.

Casual aspects of psycho-emotional state

Mental health criteria are also formed from our everyday habits and life graphics. Factors such as non-compliance with the sleep mode, disrupting the balance of nutrition, excessive overload and stress at work and study without a subsequent full-fledged rest, the inability to distract from current affairs and make a small break for the restoration of forces gradually destroy the body, putting a person's mental health. In order not to be in the future permanent guest of psychotherapists, it is necessary to listen to your own body and give it the opportunity to relax and morally recover after a difficult day. This is especially true of the weekend days, during which it is recommended to forget about all workers and educational troubles and arrange an active rest. Experts advise to organize long walking, play sports, go hiking, take an active part in various events, have fun with family or friends. Everyone chooses for himself the kind of recreation that the most follows him in the soul, it is only important to completely "disable" yourself from everyday problems and enable the body to recover.

Psychologists also recommend facilitating their everyday affairs and concerns using small notes, crib or reminders, which allow you to unload your head from unnecessary information and preserve mental health. In the reminder, it is recommended to make even some morning rituals like cleaning teeth or a good breakfast, as a person in a hurry can forget about such, it would seem tricks. However, it is precisely balance in everyday life and full nutrition that are priority factors in achieving psychological well-being and active health, which subsequently form the mental health of the personality.

Characteristic signs of a healthy personality

Signs of a successful and mentally prosperous person are determined in the following:

All listed mental health criteria are conventionally divided into levels that determine the mental state of the individual and the possible assistance in the restoration of spiritual forces. There are high (creative), medium (adaptive) and low (dezadapted) levels.

A high level of mental health implies moral stability of the individual to any unexpected stressful situations and life changes, a creative approach to solving daily issues, high performance, realistic attitude to life. A person with such qualities is considered completely mentally healthy.

The average level of adaptation includes a group of people having signs of the first mental health level, but parallel with the anxiety and inaptability to some rarely encountered life circumstances. Such people need a light psychotherapist intervention, which will help to cope with the accumulated stress and identify new life goals and objectives.

People with a low level of mental health most often tend to adapt to any life circumstances, which is called, "sailing for the flow." They go to their desires and opportunities or forcing the rest to comply with their will. Such a psychological state requires individual psychotherapeutic assistance and may also be accompanied by stationary treatment, since it is this group of people in an increased risk zone for the acquisition of mental disorders and diseases.

Methods of treatment

Accounting for individual characteristics of each person and social support for the personality at the state level allows for the effective treatment of many mental abnormalities and diseases. If the mental health of the person has been negatively influenced by the outside and significantly weakened, the patient is recommended to undergo a comprehensive survey in the inpatient mode to determine the possible accompanying psychosomatic states of the disease and formulation of an accurate diagnosis. Mental health, depending on the severity of its deterioration, is restored through working with a psychologist, receiving various antidepressants and sedatives, visits to rehabilitation centers aimed at intensifying the human life potential and strengthening the effect received from inpatient treatment.