Mental well-being describes your emotional state -- how you feel and how well you cope with day-to-day life. Your well-being can change from moment to moment. A healthy well-being is essential for you to function and be happy.

If you have good mental well-being you are able to have positive self-esteem and confidence, feel, identify, and express an assortment of emotions, build and maintain healthy relationships, engage with the world around you, live and work productively, and cope with the stress of daily life.

We're all different. What affects one person's mental well-being won't necessarily affect another in the same way. We all have times when we have low mental well-being, when we feel stressed, upset, or find it difficult to cope.

Stress, loneliness, inactivity, and/or lack of sleep all negatively affect our mental well-being. At other times, there may be no clear reason for why you feel the way you do.

Factors that may make you more vulnerable to periods of poor mental well-being include:

  • grief and loss
  • loneliness
  • relationship issues
  • work conflicts
  • abuse, trauma, violence, or neglect, either current or past
  • discrimination
  • a long-term physical health condition
  • poverty or financial stress
  • unemployment
  • being a caregiver to a family member or friend
  • significant trauma or exposure to violence

No matter the reason, it can be helpful to remember that you deserve to feel good. There are steps you can take to improve and maintain your mental well-being. PAS can help you address the issues that may be affecting your well-being.

Source: mind.org

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