Mental health continuum

• Mental health continuum


  It's a way of defining mental health by looking at it on a scale
• Strengths of a mental health continuum

  Makes it clear, the ways mental health can be improved

  Highlights when social or professional help is needed
• Weaknesses of mental health continuum

  It's unreliable

  You could fit into two groups simultaneously
• Healthy

  comfortable with others, consistent performance, normal mood, usual self-confidence and active
• Reacting

  Irritable, impatient, nervous, disrupted sleep patterns, lowered energy and decreased social activity
• Injured

  Anger, anxiety,hopelessness, tearfulness
• Ill

  constant fatigue, suicidal thoughts, depressed, high levels of anxiety.