Health is not only physical health but also mental health. Mental health is an inseparable and important aspect of modern people's health.

So, what is mental health?

-individuals can adapt to the development environment and have perfect personality characteristics; And its cognition, emotional response and will behavior are in a positive state, which can maintain normal adjustment ability. In life practice, being able to know yourself correctly, control yourself consciously, treat external influences correctly, and maintain psychological balance and coordination have already possessed the basic characteristics of mental health.

Now people's standard definition of mental health is as follows:

First, it has enough adaptability;

Second, you can fully understand yourself and make a moderate evaluation of your ability;

Third, the reality of life goals;

Fourth, not divorced from the real environment;

Five, can maintain the integrity and harmony of personality;

6. Be good at learning from experience;

Seven, can maintain good interpersonal relationships;

Eight, can moderately vent emotions and control emotions;

Nine, under the premise of not violating the collective interests, can play a limited role of personality;

Ten, under the premise of not violating social norms, can properly meet the basic needs of individuals;

A mentally healthy person, his behavior is coordinated and unified, his behavior is dominated by consciousness, his thoughts and behaviors are unified and coordinated, and he has the ability of self-control. If a person's behavior and thoughts are contradictory, his attention is not focused, his thoughts are confused, his language is fragmented, and his work is chaotic, he must make psychological adjustment.

To be a mentally healthy person, be confident. A rose is a rose and a lotus is a lotus. Just look and don't compare. Blind comparison is the easiest way to shake our mentality and change our original intention, and the result of comparison makes people feel inferior or proud, in short, mediocre. Once a person loses self-confidence, he will break away from the normal life track.

Being a mentally healthy person will appreciate it. Life doesn't need to be perfect, as long as you have a relaxed smile, as long as you have an enterprising heart and as long as you are satisfied with your actual efforts, you can appreciate others well and others can appreciate you.

To be a mentally healthy person, you should feel at ease. If you walk more than one grid, you win; if you miss one grid, you lose. The victory or defeat is determined according to certain conditions. If you indulge in the words of victory or defeat, you will inevitably form various mental troubles. "Go opponents hate it, but they can't let it go". We really want to win every word, which is a lifelong effort. Hard work is the essence of our life. If you give up victory, failure and hard work, then life will be nothing. Peace of mind and our purpose, peace of mind and hard work are the purpose. Not indulging in the words of victory or failure is the peace of mind.

The relationship between body and mind is an ancient philosophical problem, and it is also a basic conceptual problem that modern health education must clarify. As early as around 300 BC, Xunzi, an ancient materialist thinker in China, put forward the materialistic viewpoint of "the combination of form and spirit" in "On Heaven", which became one of the guiding thoughts of China's traditional medical theory of "the unity of form and spirit". The theory of traditional Chinese medicine in China holds that: "Form is the body of God, and the form of God is used; If there is no God, you can't live. If you are invisible, you can't live. " In which God is the master of form. In this regard, the Chinese medical classic Huangdi Neijing has long stated: "The heart is the official of the monarch, and the god is outside." It shows that people's psychosomatic activities are carried out under the control and coordination of the mind.

This shows that as early as more than two thousand years ago, ancient thinkers and medical scientists in China have clearly realized that body and mind are a unity, and the two influence each other, with the heart as the dominant aspect. Facts show that people's body and mind respond to the stimulation of external environmental factors as a whole. Therefore, when studying health and health education, we should pay full attention to both physical and mental aspects, and we should not only pay attention to one aspect but ignore the other. Because mental health and physical health do not exist in isolation, but are interrelated, restricted and influenced each other. For example, in the endocrine system of human body, the physiological function of thyroid gland is to secrete thyroxine and regulate the metabolism of the body. If hyperthyroidism, thyroxine secretion is excessive and metabolism is accelerated, individuals will have nervous psychological reactions, such as emotional excitability, distraction, anxiety and even delusions and hallucinations; On the contrary, insufficient thyroxine secretion and slow metabolism will slow down individual mental and intellectual activities, slow response, poor memory and slow thinking, which will often lead to negative psychological states such as pessimism and depression. This shows that the abnormal changes of physiological function will cause the decline or disorder of psychological function. Conversely, being in a bad mood can also lead to physical diseases. For example, if a person is in a state of tension, anxiety, sadness and resentment for a long time, it will lead to loss of appetite, increased secretion of gastric acid, congestion of gastric wall and prolonged gastric mucosa, which will make the congested part thinner and reduce the role of protecting the gastric wall, so that the gastric wall is often eroded by gastric acid, which will lead to digestive system diseases such as gastritis and gastrointestinal ulcer over time. Psychosomatic medical research shows that any physiological disease may cause negative changes in mentality, such as depression, pessimism, anxiety, fear and even despair, and in severe cases, various forms of accompanying mental disorders may occur. On the contrary, any excessive psychological reaction or abnormal mental changes may also lead to physiological diseases, that is, psychogenic diseases. Therefore, in any form of health education, attention should be paid to both physical health education and mental health education, and both should not be neglected. In a word, the essence of health lies in harmony. "

We should be a healthy person, but also a mentally healthy person!