It's always better to look on the positive side of any issue, and what better way to think of the mind. Is it sick or is it well. Most often is is a combination of the two. Hopefully mental health will be above the half way mark at sixty or seventy rather than the other way around.
Although mental illness is not to be ignored and called something else, it is best to use the healthy part of one's thinking to directly influence the negative, or the mentally ill part. While it is true, one can be negative and out of sorts, depressed and not necessarily a pleasant person to be around, and still not be classified as mentally ill, but then neither can they be said to be mentally healthy. Therefore on any given day, one or the other usually dominates.
The purpose of this switch around of focus from mental illness to mental health on this blog is a choice I feel I must make. It is wider in scope and will allow both situations to be aired, talked about, and will generally fit in with my own mind frame. And it will get closer to what I really want to do with this blog. And what is that? To get people to looking at their good mental coping skills first and then to use that positive approach to deal with their lesser, often denied and hidden areas of brain functioning that they prefer not to admit having.
Where to start? Why not with the National Institute of Mental Health.
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