What is Emotional and Mental Health?

 

When your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.  Jack Kornfield
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If you are wondering about your own or your child's mental health, you may want to consider the following qualities and skills that characterize a healthy person:

  • The ability to enjoy life, relax and laugh

  • Flexibility in your thinking, actions and how you respond to others

  • The ability to have satisfying and safe relationships

  • Knowing what you are feeling and how you can regulate your emotions so they don’t become unbearable or unmanageable

  • A healthy and compassionate relationship with yourself

  • A stable identity that does not depend on the approval of others.

  • Connection to a sense of meaning and to something greater than yourself

  • Resiliency:  the ability to bounce back from adversity

  • Absence of self- harming habits

  • Feeling at peace more often than not

  • Ability to feel strongly and think logically at the same time.