Criteria for Mental Health

Aug 29, 2024 Source: Cainiu Health
Disease description:

My cousin enjoys watching bloody and violent videos. Is he mentally unhealthy? What are the criteria for mental health?

Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Zhang Baohua

The criteria for mental health include the following aspects:

1. Emotional stability: The ability to maintain a cheerful, open, and confident mood frequently. When facing life's pressures and challenges, one can regulate emotions timely, maintain relative calmness and optimism, and avoid significant emotional fluctuations.

2. Good adaptation to the environment: When facing environmental changes or life difficulties, maintaining a positive attitude toward life, flexibly adjusting oneself, and finding solutions; being able to adapt to societal development and changes, and having the courage to transform the existing environment.

3. Harmonious interpersonal relationships: Willingness to interact with others, establish and maintain healthy relationships, possess good communication skills, understand and respect others, maintain an independent and complete personality during interactions, have self-awareness, and remain neither inferior nor arrogant.

4. Normal basic cognitive functions: Possessing good memory, attention, thinking ability, and judgment, being able to perceive reality clearly. Having clear consciousness, with a proactive outlook on life as the core of one's personality.

5. Clarity of one's social role: The ability to fulfill responsibilities associated with one's roles in family, work, and society, and active participation in social activities.

The above criteria are not absolute; each individual's mental health status can be influenced by multiple factors, including genetics, environment, and life experiences.