Mental health can be viewed as a horizontal continuum. That spectrum includes general contentment and emotional well-being at one end; mild mental health issues like mild depression and anxiety in the middle; and extreme forms of mental illness, like deep depression, psychosis, schizophrenia and even suicide at the other end.
We may not have control over where we start on the spectrum. We come into the world with a genetic makeup, and our family and life experiences interact with our heredity to define our mental health.
Severe Mental and Emotional Disruption
Anxiety, Depression, Substance Dependence
General Stress, East at Times, Disruption at Times
General Mental andEmotional Wellbeing, Periodic Moments of Disruption
High Mental and Emotional Wellbeing
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Severe Mental and Emotional Disruption
Anxiety, Depression, Substance Dependence
General Stress, East at Times, Disruption at Times
General Mental and Emotional Wellbeing, Periodic Moments of Disruption
High Mental and Emotional Wellbeing
However, as our friends at the Global Wellness Initiative point out, there is another spectrum of mental wellness. This added vertical axis captures the reality that people with diagnosed mental disorders can thrive with the right support, tools and practices. And people without a mental disorder can experience low emotional and mental wellness —such as overwhelming stress, loneliness and conflict—at times.
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Mental Wellness Spectrum Slautogenic
Mild/Moderate
Symptoms
Uncontrolled
symptoms
Adapted from a Global Wellness Institute model, which was developed from concepts originally contributed by Keith Tudor (1996) and Corey L.M. Keyes (2002). Source: Global Wellness Institute
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