ch 2 mental health is a state of wellbeing

Mental health is a state of wellbeing that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realise their abilities, learn and work well, and contribute to their community.

It is an integral component of health and wellbeing that underpins our individual and collective abilities to make decisions, build relationship and shape the world we live. And it is crucial to personal, community and socio-economic development.

Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. It exists on complex continuum, which is experienced differently from one person to the next, with varying degrees of difficulty and distress and potentially very different social and clinical outcomes. 
World Health Organization. (2020). Adolescent mental health.)