When we think of the phrase ‘mental health,’ we often picture the opposite of those two words — we picture the stigma of mental illness.
As a society, I think we view mental health and mental illness as a dichotomy — placing them on two separate ends of a spectrum, assuming that we are either mentally healthy or mentally ill.
This is a risky misperception, leading us toward separation rather than togetherness.
But we can visualize a new association for this phrase by defining ‘mental health’ exactly how it sounds, as the health of our minds.
When we reframe it this way we realize one simple, glaring, obvious and life changing little truth:
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