What Is Mental Health? Who Are Mentally Healthy?
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Abstract
HE human possesses three aspects that are con-substantial to his being, T and, because of this, quite undetachable one from another; a body, mentality, and social sense. Man is a biological, physical, and social being. Therefore it is very difficult to be able to speak of mental health without presupposing the bodily health that sustains it, and without involving the social health that characterises it. A patient can be sick in his body without being mentally sick, but when his sickness gets worse, or lasts a long time, you can be sure that physical suffering will not be long in showing itself. In the same way, a mental patient can keep his suffering hidden for some time, but in the end, if he does not get some treatment, his troubles will eventually show in his behaviour and his social condition. Contrariwise, professional and social maladjustments that are not given a solution, determine disturbances in the psychical integrity of the subject, and finally will affect his bodily well-being. Once we have mentioned the existence of such reciprocal dynamism, we shall limit ourselves to our subject.