Relationship between mental health and mental hygiene?

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure of your question; you may have some specific kinds of activities that you are calling mental hygiene. But in a general sense, you are talking about a balanced life. Any and every aspect of life impacts the mental state. The idea is that thoughts feelings and actions all blend and interact with each other. One line of thinking is that it makes little difference what you want, or what you attempt to do; the deterministic nature of our bodies and nervous systems already have the important stuff mapped out; free will and choice are really imaginary. On the other hand, why not engage in the healthiest balance that you can manage? Whether or not it is already determined, you can at least enjoy the journey. You can look at these parts of the Big Picture, and see how you are doing. Some say that the basic behavioral motivators for humans are Sex, Wealth and Power. There may be some truth to this. It's better to shed light on these and see how they fit into our lives, rather than reel back in Horror and let them take over completely. Also, the healthiest people seem to 'have it together' regarding Work, Friendships and Relationships, and Leisure. Here, European cultures probably have an edge over the US. We in the US are perceived by many as work-aholics. As a very general rule, Europeans know how to work in order to have enough, and in order to make room for personal lives. People in the US are often driven to work in order to get, and then to get more and more. Focus on personal living is considered weak, or second-rate. Also, have some activities that involve or at least challenge the body in some ways. Have some activities that involve or at least challenge the mind, as well.

Answer 2

Mental hygiene

Science of maintaining mental health and preventing disorders to help people function at their full mental potential. It includes all measures taken to promote and preserve mental health: rehabilitation of the mentally disturbed, prevention of mental illness, and aid in coping in a stressful world. Community mental health acknowledges the relation between mental health, population pressures, and social unrest. It also deals with social problems, from drug addiction to suicide prevention. Treatment of the mentally ill through the ages has ranged from neglect, ill treatment, and isolation to active treatment and integration into the community, often in response to crusading reformers. Prevention of mental illness includes prenatal care, child-abuse awareness programs, and counseling for crime victims. Treatment includes psychotherapy, drug therapy, and support groups. One of the most important efforts is public education to combat the stigma still attached to mental illness and encourage those affected to seek treatment.

Answer 3

Mental health means an absence of mental illness, which can happen to ANYONE AT ANY TIME. Mental hygiene is what the Nazis were claiming to be practicing by sterilizing ( & the Americans did it as well, & a particular Scandinavian country & God knows how many other countries as well) `The Mentally Feeble, which meant not just the mentally ill, but also people with learning difficulties ( To this day the Americans don`t seem to know the difference, one American volunteer working for a charity in a home in the UK for learning disabled people asked me personally `whats the difference! I was shocked, to say the least! The Nazis also included the physically `handicapped` as well. Then as the whole world knows, (apart from the Holocaust denier's, who make claims like `All the Jews went to America` more a case of the Nazis after the war fleeing to the USA, & some going to work for NASA, whom without they supposedly couldn`t do without) the Nazis went on to murder them, in total on top of at least 5 million Jews, there were at least another 1 million which for the most part seems to be overlooked by the whole world, the UK included, other `undesirables, (in other words people who very bravely stood up against them, & hid Jewish people & helped them to survive, people that they claimed were Communists, & dissagreed with them polictically, the`racially impure` (on top of the Jewish people), like the Gypsies, people who either were or thought to be Homosexual, & the physically `handicapped`, the `learning disabled`, & the `mentally ill`, by their deffination of all these groups of people, & anyone else that didn`t fit their ideal of a `racially pure Aryan race`,since one only needed one Jewish Grandparent to be considered Jewish, Hitler, who had Jewish blood in his family line, & most certainly wasn`t blond & blue-eyed, ( its also has been said since that he was mentally ill himself, & even at the time there were those around him who doubted his mental stability), well he should have been the first for the gas chambers, by his own deffinitions. THIS IS WHAT MENTAL HYGIENE MEANS, ITS NOT LIKE ORAL HYGIENE, MEANING ONE SHOULD CLEAN ONE`S TEETH, FLOSS & VISIT THE DENTIST REGULARY.

Answer 4

Poor mental hygiene (allowing thoughts that don't work for us to remain) often affords us to keep making the same mistakes. Many times we overthink things too, this also is a downward spiral leading to spending too much lost time on otherwise easy tasks. The key is balance and not thinking of things so much as right or wrong as in determining whether or not they work for us. This is of course only going to work in a perfect world where the needs of others are put first and everyone automatically chooses what will work best all things considered.