• Question: What does Mental Health mean to you?

    Asked by Tsubaki7 to Jack, Gem, Jermaine, Michelle, Steve on 20 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Jermaine Ravalier

      Jermaine Ravalier answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      Preventing people from becoming ill in the first place (as far as possible) – it’s much better than having to look for a cure.

    • Photo: Michelle Jamieson

      Michelle Jamieson answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      Mental health means to me, to be secure, and relatively happy, to be able to live a happy live with plenty of opportunities to do what you want to do.

    • Photo: Jack barton

      Jack barton answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      Mental health to me is your ability to navigate through your world and deal with the problems which arise out of doing just that. It is also acknowledging your strengths and weaknesses and understanding how best you can utilise them and compensate for them too. To echo Jermaine, these are things which ideally mental health researchers and clinicians should help us achieve before mental ill health becomes debilitating.

    • Photo: Steven Brown

      Steven Brown answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      A great question. It will mean different things to different people. I guess it is not any one thing, but a combination. For sure, to not limit the possibilities in your life due to worry, stress, anxiety, etc. To be able to enjoy life to the fullest.

    • Photo: Gemma Taylor

      Gemma Taylor answered on 21 Jun 2017:

      Mental health is something that we all experience changes in. One can be in good mental health, or poor mental health, and mental health can change from day to day, or from year to year. Mental health is closely related to physical health, and people should take care of both their physical and mental health with equal thought and attention.

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