Health, like illness is indicated when a set of symptoms at a specific level are present for a specified duration. This health coincides with distinctive brain and social functioning. According to Freud, normalcy is the capacity to love, work and play. Current psychological researchers refer this capacity as “mental health”. Mental health is a state of successful performance of mental function resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationship with people and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity.
Ryff and Keyes (1995) combined many principles of pleasure to define complete mental health. Optimal functioning is the combination of emotional wellbeing, social wellbeing and psychological wellbeing (Ryff &Keyes, 1995; Keyes & Lopus, 2002; Keyes & Magyar Moe, 2003). State of mental functioning will involve the presence and absence of symptoms of emotional, psychological and social wellbeing as well as absence of recent mental illness.
Emotional wellbeing refers to subjective wellbeing. It is defined as the presence of positive affect and satisfaction with life and the absence of negative affect. Social wellbeing includes acceptance, actualization, coherence, contribution and integration. Psychological wellbeing incorporates self-acceptance, personal growth, purpose in life, environmental mastery, autonomy and positive relations with others.
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