mental health

/ˌmɛntl hɛlθ/

/ˈmɛntəl hɛlθ/

Your mental health is your psychological condition. Stress, grief, and lack of sleep can all affect your mental health.

Mental health encompasses the well-being of your mind and emotions. The state of your mental health affects how you get along with other people, how you feel about yourself, and how you handle stressful situations. Conditions like depression and anxiety can damage mental health. Just as you care for your physical health by eating well, drinking water, and sleeping enough, it's important to protect your mental health, too. An earlier, similar term was mental hygiene.

Definitions of mental health

1. noun

   the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment
   antonyms:

   mental illness

   any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

   types:

   mental balance, mental soundness

   the healthy psychological state of someone with good judgment

   saneness, sanity

   normal or sound powers of mind

   lucidity

   a lucid state of mind; not confused

   rationality, reason, reasonableness

   the state of having good sense and sound judgment

   type of:

   mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state

   (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic