Key Terms in Mental Health
Mental– this term is connected to my paper as I will discuss more on how the mind affects the happiness of an individual. Therefore, for me to explain the mind, I will use the phrase “mental” I as a general term to describe anything related to mind in most of the parts of the essay. This part as brought into concept while I was analyzing an article by Shane Clinton and Bruce Stevens named as “Happiness and Mental Illness: Virtue Ethics in Dialogue with Psychology” (Shane, Bruce, 2018 and Fawcett, 1998). In this article, the term is used to refer to mind alteration that affects happiness; the article describes how mental illness affects the activities of the mind, which also affects the happiness of an individual. For me, the phrase speaks more about the activities of the mind. Overall, the phrase ‘mental’ is an adjective that is used to describe anything having a relationship with a mind just as ”physical” has to do with the body. Mental has a lot to do with the intellect, the mind, or the brain.
Ill-being – This phrase is one of the terms that will be applied a lot in my research because my research paper will be centred more in mental health happiness. Since the phrase will be the primary phrase of the article, I want to ensure that my audience has a kind of clear understanding of the term. When hearing ‘ill-being’, some people think that it is just a state of feeling unhealthy. However, there is more to that when looking at the phrase. The intent of using the term does not only mean the state of being unhealthy, but it also covers the state of lacking prosperity and happiness. I obtained the phrase from the article called “Do They Know How Happy They Are? On the Value of Self-Rated Happiness of People With a Mental Disorder “by (Bergsma et al. 2010). To help in understanding the phrase, the article has labelled that, ill-beings are unhappy beings, and therefore, an unhappy government have a higher tendency of causing inflation and unemployment to its citizens.
Depression-this term is connected to my paper as I talk about how depression results from unhappiness which is a result of mental illness. On hearing the term ”depression”, most people will think about it as a feeling of stress. However, there is to that when looking at the phrase. My intent of using the word ‘’ depression’’, does not just mean how someone is excessively stressed, but also covers a state of severe despondency and dejection. This phrase was brought into my context while I was analyzing an article known as “Mental Health Stigma and Subjective Happiness” (Ahmed, 2017). To help in better understanding of the phrase, an example of a state where an individual starts behaving as if he/she is mentally ill, yet he/she is not mentally ill. Such behaviours include self-communication, excessive forgetfulness etc.
References
Ahmed, S. (2017). Mental Health Stigma and Subjective Happiness. Journal Of Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.15406/jpcpy.2017.07.00425
Bergsma, A., Veenhoven, R., ten Have, M., & de Graaf, R. (2010). Do They Know How Happy They Are? On the Value of Self-Rated Happiness of People With a Mental Disorder. Journal Of Happiness Studies, 12(5), 793-806. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-010-9227-5
Fawcett, J. (1998). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stress, and Happiness. Psychiatric Annals, 28(8), 427-428. https://doi.org/10.3928/0048-5713-19980801-05
Shane and Stevens. (2018, December 27). Happiness and mental illness: Virtue ethics in dialogue with psychology. Wiley Online Library. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/heyj.13122