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Mental health

noun

The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.

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"Mental health" Quotes from Famous Books

... disorder here presented inevitably leads to certain views regarding the causes which give rise to it. Since mental health is dependent on capacity for adjustment being equal to the demands made upon it, mental disorder must always be due to failure to maintain this relationship between capacity and needs. The causes of insanity must therefore be ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... gutta serena, and that freedom from pain in the visual organs was all that he had to hope for during the remainder of his days. It was a severe shock, especially to a man whose general physical and mental health was already undermined, and it is no wonder that Handel began to give way to periods of profound depression. The condition of Handel's eyes, and of his hand as well, may be clearly observed in the autograph of Jephtha, and it ...

— Handel • Edward J. Dent

... "pardon me for suggesting such a thing, but are you not surrendering yourself to a very childish weakness? Is it possible that you, a man in the very prime of life and apparently in perfect bodily and mental health, can be so utterly devoid of self- control that because you have suffered injury, real ...

— A Middy of the Slave Squadron - A West African Story • Harry Collingwood

... the mental level much the same purpose that play does, in fact, much of it is mental play of a kind. Second, they are impersonal. They are valuable in that they take us out of ourselves, away from self-interests, and therefore make for mental health and sanity as well as for a sympathetic character. They are also a means of broadening one's experience. Third, they have a close relationship with ideals and therefore have an active bearing on conduct. It is not necessarily true that one will tend in himself ...

— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy

... woman who intends to succeed in this profession to have excellent physical and mental health, though great muscular strength is not necessary. During student life and in practice, every care should be taken of the general health—exercise in the open air being especially necessary, though this should not be too energetic in character. It is a well-known fact that male dentists doing ...

— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley

... pieces of paper, put them down on the ground, and called for the chosen medium. A relative of young Hsue, with a red turban round his head, stepped forward, and took his stand somewhat reluctantly on the tigers. He had seen other mediums return with their bodily and mental health impaired, and he had no desire to risk his own; but his duty and brotherly love bade him perform this ...

— Everlasting Pearl - One of China's Women • Anna Magdalena Johannsen

Words linked to "Mental health" : mental balance, psychological state, mental condition, mental soundness, psychological condition, mental state, mental illness, saneness, sanity