Mental Health Is Not Just The Absence of Mental Illness

Dr Kathi J. Kemper writes in her book "Mental Health, Naturally", that "mental health is part of an interrelated package of overall health, including physical, mental, and spiritual health." The US Department of Health and Human Services is quoted by Dr Kemper as defining health as being "the successful performance of mental functions, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships, the ability to adapt to change, and successful coping with adversity." And the World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity. And so in order to be truly mentally healthy you have to work at it daily. There is a mind/boy/social relationship between all aspects of well being. People who do not encourage the nurturing of all of these aspects of your health, such as psychiatrists, are not really interested in your mental health. And governments and people who do not encourage other people to earn money and work with them to do so, for whatever reasons, are not nurturing their mental health since it takes financial freedom to be able to successfully realize all of the aspects of health. Psychiatrists and the people they work with have a consistent pattern of undermining the income earning potential of the people who have the great misfortune of seeing them, instead of working with people to nurture their careers and income earning potential.