Mental health refers to having normal intelligence, positive emotions, moderate emotions, harmonious interpersonal relationships, good personality, strong will and mature psychological behavior. Mental health is closely related to a person's achievement, contribution and success.

Mental health is the foundation of college students' success;

1. Mental health can promote the all-round development of college students' healthy psychological quality, which is the basic requirement of college students' all-round development, and it is also an important condition for them to go to society in the future, play their intellectual level in their jobs, actively engage in social activities, and constantly develop to a higher level. Fully understanding the harmonious development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor is based on healthy psychological quality, which directly affects and restricts the realization of all-round development.

2. Mental health can help college students overcome dependence and enhance their independence. After hard work and fierce competition, college students bid farewell to middle schools, enter universities and enter a brand-new world of life. College students must shift from relying on their parents to relying on themselves. Before going to college, the university they imagined was like a "paradise", romantic, strange and wonderful. After going to college, it is difficult for them to adapt to the intense study, strict discipline and living environment. Therefore, college students must attach importance to mental health, overcome dependence as soon as possible, enhance independence, actively adapt to college life, and live a full and meaningful college life.

3. Mental health is a solid psychological foundation for college students to achieve career success. At present, the distribution of China university graduates has changed greatly. College students all adopt the methods of meeting supply and demand, two-way selection and merit-based admission. Competition in choosing a job will inevitably make college students feel psychologically confused and uneasy, exclaiming that "the emperor's daughter is also worried about marrying". Therefore, in the face of the new situation, college students should pay attention to maintaining mental health, cultivate good psychological quality of self-reliance, self-improvement and self-discipline, exercise their social communication ability, make themselves make correct role choices in the ever-changing and complex social environment, dare to face difficulties, setbacks and challenges, pursue a more perfect personality, and lay a solid psychological foundation for career success.

4. Mental health is beneficial for college students to cultivate healthy personality psychology. The psychological characteristics of college students' personality refer to the various characteristics that they often and stably display in psychology and behavior, usually in two main aspects: temperament and personality. Temperament mainly refers to the characteristics of emotional reflection, and personality includes not only the characteristics of temperament, but also the characteristics of will reflection. The psychological characteristics of contemporary college students are generally characterized by active thinking, good at independent thinking, strong sense of participation and abundant mental state, which are conducive to the healthy growth of college students.

Recently, the Ministry of Education issued an opinion on strengthening college students' mental health education, requiring local education departments and universities to fully understand the importance of strengthening college students' mental health education. The Opinions clarify the main tasks of current college students' mental health education: according to the psychological characteristics of college students, impart mental health knowledge in a targeted manner, carry out counseling or consulting activities, help college students establish mental health awareness, optimize their psychological quality, enhance their psychological adjustment ability and adaptability to social life, and prevent and alleviate psychological problems. Help them to deal with the confusion in environmental adaptation, self-management, study, interpersonal communication, making friends and falling in love, job hunting, personality development and emotional adjustment, improve their health level and promote the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty. Strengthening college students' psychological health education is an important measure to fully implement quality education under the new situation, and it is also an important part of moral education in colleges and universities. This requires the school to conduct psychological tests on college students, analyze their psychological conditions, carry out psychological counseling activities, educate and guide college students to continuously strengthen psychological quality training and exercise, and lay a solid foundation for success.

So, how to eliminate their psychological gap and make them successful? The specific ways and methods are as follows:

First, cultivate good personality quality. A good personality should first understand oneself correctly, cultivate an attitude of accepting oneself, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and constantly improve oneself. Secondly, we should improve our tolerance to setbacks, have a correct understanding of setbacks, not panic in the face of setbacks, adopt a rational coping style, and turn negative factors into positive ones. The level of frustration tolerance is related to personal ideological realm, subjective judgment of frustration and frustration experience. To improve the ability to withstand setbacks, we should strive to improve our ideological realm, establish a scientific outlook on life, actively participate in various practical activities, and enrich our life experience.

Second, develop a scientific lifestyle. The influence of lifestyle on mental health has been proved by scientific research. A healthy lifestyle refers to a regular life, a combination of work and rest, scientific use of the brain, adherence to physical exercise, less drinking, no smoking, and attention to hygiene. College students have a heavy study burden and great psychological pressure. If we want to keep the efficiency of study for a long time, we must arrange daily study, exercise and rest scientifically to make our life regular. To learn to use the brain scientifically means to use the brain regularly, reasonably and promptly, so as to avoid neurasthenia caused by excessive use of the brain and reduce the ability of thinking and remembering hundreds of millions.