{"id":40471,"date":"2017-06-07T04:28:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flexhk.com\/2017\/06\/07\/so-you-think-you-have-mental-wellness\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T07:22:54","slug":"so-you-think-you-have-mental-wellness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/like2say.com\/flexhk\/so-you-think-you-have-mental-wellness\/","title":{"rendered":"SO YOU THINK YOU HAVE MENTAL WELLNESS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1505276256281{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Maybe you think you have it. But do you?<\/p>\n

Mental Wellness is different from being diagnosed with a mental illness. It\u2019s different from just being physically fit and it\u2019s not the same as just eating right and getting enough sleep.<\/p>\n

Put simply, Mental Wellness \u2013 a buzzing buzzword in health for 2017 and no doubt beyond \u2013 is that \u201cwellness refers to a holistic approach in which body, mind and spirit are integrated. It is a way of life oriented toward optimal health and wellbeing in which the body, mind and spirit are integrated in a purposeful manner with a goal of living life more fully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those words don\u2019t come from a self-proclaimed guru touting his or her own snake oil cure, but Dr. Jane Myers of the University of North Carolina, one of the founders of the concept (source: anxietypanichealth.com)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWellness is more than the absence of disease (or) a state defined as \u2018health\u2019. It incorporates a concern for optimal functioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Myers explains on the site that by its very essence, mental wellness cannot be separated from physical and spiritual wellness. In fact, the three work together to produce the very concept of wellness.<\/p>\n

Generations ago, mental wellness would have looked rather different. Managing to keep your children alive past birth was more important than the way you approached your thought processes or managed your daily workouts. But as we all know, the world is a vastly different place from even a couple of generations ago.<\/p>\n

In this era of panic attacks, stress-related diseases, children as young as six being treated for anxiety-related disorders, teenage suicide, widespread sleep deprivation and self-harming and in recent years, global terror attacks and climate change, there is no better time to become aware of mental wellness and trying to embrace it for yourself and your family.<\/p>\n

And yes, it can be done without you losing your sense of fun, freedom or humor! In fact, it should only enhance the \u2018good\u2019.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, this is a breakdown of today\u2019s <\/em>mental wellness:<\/p>\n