{"id":3397,"date":"2020-02-10T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2021-09-17T05:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:17:14","slug":"understanding-the-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/understanding-the-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mental health is an expression we use every day, so it might\nsurprise people that the term is frequently misunderstood. Mental health\nis often used as a substitute for mental health conditions such as depression,\nanxiety conditions, schizophrenia, and others. But according to the World\nHealth Organization, mental health is \u201ca state of well-being in which every\nindividual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses\nof life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a\ncontribution to her or his community\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make things a bit clearer, some experts have tried\nto explain the difference between mental health and mental health conditions by\ntalking about a range or a line where mental health is at one end, represented\nby feeling good and functioning well, through to severe symptoms of mental\nhealth conditions at the other. Mental health is not fixed or in a static\nstate, and we can move back and forth along this scale at different times\nduring our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the green end of the line, people are well, showing\nresilience and high levels of wellbeing. Moving into the yellow area, people\nmay start to have difficulty coping. In the orange area, people have more\ndifficulty coping and symptoms may increase in severity and frequency. At the\nred end of the line, people will probably experience severe symptoms and may be\nat risk of self-harm or suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important to remember that mental health is complex.\nThe fact that someone is not experiencing a mental health condition does not\nnecessarily mean their mental health is flourishing. Likewise, it is\npossible to be diagnosed with a mental health condition while feeling well in\nmany aspects of life. Ultimately, mental health is about being cognitively,\nemotionally and socially healthy, the way we think, feel and develop\nrelationships, and not merely the absence of a mental health condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we talk about mental health in the workplace, we are\nlooking at how our working environments affect us, either positively or negatively,\nas well as the effect our mental health has on our ability to do our jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work can make us feel good about ourselves and give us a\nsense of purpose, which helps to protect and improve our mental health. Factors\nlike job stress, bullying or discrimination can trigger a mental health\ncondition or cause an existing condition to worsen. Personal or relationship\nissues might cause someone develops a mental health condition, regardless of\nwhat is going on at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But whatever the factors contributing to someone develop a\nmental health condition, workplaces can play a key role by being flexible,\nproviding support, and creating an environment where people feel comfortable\nraising their concerns and reaching out when they need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A healthy person is a productive person, they are engaged;\nthey feel safe, they like that they are cared for, they are focused on the\njob they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mental health is an expression we use every day, so it might surprise people that the term is frequently misunderstood. Mental health is often used as a substitute for mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety conditions, schizophrenia, and others. But according to the World Health Organization, mental health is \u201ca state of well-being in which… Read More »Understanding the Mental Health<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[181,295,342,601,775],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","tag-anxiety","tag-condition","tag-depression","tag-mental-health","tag-schizophrenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5343,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/5343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}