Mental health is more than merely the absence of mental disorders or disabilities, it is a state of wellbeing in which an individual realises their full potential, can cope with everyday stresses and can work productively to make a contribution to their community (WHO). While mental wellbeing is not as simple as ABC, this glossary aims to provide you with some of terms and concepts that can help you reach your full mental health potential.
This is a work in progress, the aim is to delve deeper into each one of these concepts and how these can contribute to ensure that you flourish on your own journey, your odyssey.
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A:
Acceptance
Accountability
Adaptability
Adversity
Affirmations
Affiliation
Agency
Altruism
Ancestry
Appraisal
Appreciation
Attachment
Attitude
Authenticity
Autonomy
Awareness
Boundaries
Bravery
Breath work
Buffering
C:
Caring
Character
Citizenship
Clarity
Coherence
Collaboration
Communication
Compassion
Composure
Competence
Commitment
Confidence
Consideration
Connection
Context
Contribution
Control (developing an internal locus of control)
Courage
Cooperation
Coping
Creativity
Criticism
Curiosity
D:
Dialogue
Dichotomy
Direction
Diversity
Disclosure
Determination
Daring
Doing
Dig deep
Desolation
Drugs
Delusional
Dealing with your demons
Drive
Destination
E:
Enough
Engagement
Emotions
Empathy
Enlightenment
Equity and Equality
Energy (Masculine and Feminine)
Extending
Exploration
Eudaimonic wellbeing
F:
Fairness
Flow
Flourishing
Floundering
Flexibility
Forgiveness
Friendship
G:
Gratitude
Grit
Growth mindset
Grounding
Generosity
Genuine (see authenticity)
Goals
H:
Hope
Honesty
Humility
Humour
Harmony
Humanity
Happiness
I:
Imagination
Insight
Integration
Interconnection
Indigenous
Integrity
Intellectual Curiosity
Intentionality
Impulse control
Idiosyncrasy
Individuality
Independence/Interdependence
Investment
J:
Joy
Justice
Judgement
Journaling
Journey
K:
Kind
Kinship
Knowing
L:
Laughter
Learning (unlearning, relearning)
Lightness
Likeability
Limits
Listen
Love
M:
Mindfulness
Mindset
Meaning
Mastery
N:
Narrative
Nature
Network
Nurture
O:
Ourselves
Obstacles
Opportunities
Ordinary
Optimism
Other
P:
Perseverance
Perspective
Purpose
Paradox
Psychological safety
Patience
Q:
Quintessential
R:
Respect
Relationship
Relatedness
Reframing
Resilience
Respect
Reflection
Relearning (see learning)
Responsibility
S:
Self-awareness and Self-concept
Self- regulation
Self-acceptance
Sensitivity
Social Competence
Sustainability
T:
Temperance
Transcendence
Trust
Therapy
Teamwork
Truth
U:
Ubuntu
Ukama
Unlocking
Unlearning
U-turn
V:
Values
Vulnerability
VUCA
W:
Wisdom
X:
X factor
Y:
You
Yielding
Yin-Yang
Z:
Zest