{"id":132052,"date":"2015-07-07T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=132052"},"modified":"2015-07-08T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:47:22","slug":"you-may-not-be-mentally-ill-but-are-you-mentally-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/you-may-not-be-mentally-ill-but-are-you-mentally-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"You may not be mentally ill but are you mentally healthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
When co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was walking on the jet bridge into that German Wings aircraft on March 24, 2015 – probably chortling happily with other crew members, as they usually do, no one could presage the tragedy that he was going to cause. Forty minutes into German Wings Flight 9525, when Andreas Lubitz was left in the cockpit alone, he deliberately flew the plane into the French Alps, killing himself and all 149 others on board. Mr. Lubitz seemed to be in perfect physical shape that day- because if he wasn\u2019t, he wouldn\u2019t have been allowed to fly-, but as it turns out, his mental health was askance from the normal- yet no one knew.<\/p>\n
A person\u2019s state of physical health is fairly easy to identify; even the untrained eye can pick up an awry appearance, an awkward gait, or bodily warmth at the touch to signify the absence of physical vitality, but it is not that simple when it comes to mental health. Except for the few who are overtly ill, many people walk around with mental illness unseen by the next person. But the problem is not so much with diagnosed mental illnesses in a minority of the population as it is the absence of optimum mental well-being in a sizeable proportion of the population. The mere absence of mental illness does not mean one has optimum mental health.<\/p>\n
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act as we cope with life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Our life as we know it is made better or worse by our mental state.<\/p>\n
I suppose some have already concluded they are in tip top mental shape; but don\u2019t be too quick. Answer this short questionnaire to find out how mentally healthy or otherwise you are:<\/p>\n