What does it mean to be mentally ‘well’?
LA TimesDear readers, A few weeks ago, the For Your Mind team asked you to send us your questions about mental health. If we’re going to be talking about mental health, we need to attempt to define what it means to be mentally well — which, it turns out, is a messy endeavor. “We shouldn’t fall into the trap of dividing the world into two groups of people: the mentally well and the mentally not well,” said Shekhar Saxena, former director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. “It’s not true or helpful.” A new definition of mental health OK — so back to the question. One such effort occurred in 2015 when a group of psychiatric researchers in Europe set out to create a “new definition of mental health.” They aimed to move away from Western ideas of mental health and fully acknowledge that life is “sometimes joyful, and at other times sad or disgusting or frightening; sometimes satisfactory, and at other times challenging or unsatisfactory.” They also wanted something that was relevant across cultures.
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