THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER MENTAL HEALTH

It is inevitable that you pay close attention to your Mental Health in order not to suffer or experience mental illness.

Proper Mental Health is necessary for you in so many ways. It governs your cognitive perception, i.e. it influences your self-esteem, perception of others, things and events. It also affects your ability to effectively manage your stress index and your coping mechanism, so that you don’t become mentally ill.

Also, proper Mental Health is vital for your Psychological Mindedness (PM). Psychological Mindedness has to do with your capacity or ability to be insightful about your motives or intentions to do or not to do something and those of others.

In addition, to be able to recognize the connections between your past and current life. This will help to empower you and prevent you from becoming stagnated in your past. Your Psychological Mindedness is important for you to be able to recognize the meaning or interpretation of Overt Actions and words.

Psychological Mindedness will empower you to understand and embrace your Emotional Nuance. Emotional Nuance encompasses your capability to love and the need to be loved by others, especially in the case of being in a relationship, either marriage or otherwise. This notion of psychological mindedness is quite abstract and proper Mental Health is needed to be successful in this process. This is a very complex aspect of your life and as depicted in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Abraham Maslow, 1943. Here love or belonging comes third on that hierarchy.

After some of your most basic physiological needs of food, water, clothing and shelter are met, then you need to feel safe. According to Maslow, after feeling a sense of safety, then you have the need to love and be loved. This is next in line on this pyramid that represents man’s most basic needs.

Proper Mental Health is in fact very important to be able to have personal insight, as explained above. Psychological mindedness is also necessary to have the capacity for self-examination, proper Introspection and self-examination. The process of self-examination involves your ability to carry out the most basic examination of yourself to determine any abnormal behavior or illness.

Self-reflection enables you to consciously examine your behavior, motives and even your character. In terms of your behavior and motive, you can see the reason behind certain types of behaviors so you can take corrective measures to change or eradicate it.

Introspection is your ability to observe and assess your mental functions and the experiences that you have had.