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Mental health is the ability to have motivation to engage in life, control behaviors, experience a manageable range of emotions, tolerate distress, cope with situations triggering distress, think clearly and learn to remember things. People with good mental health are motivated when they do things of their own interest. They are able to act in response to whatever happens to their environment in a way that will help them move closer to what’s important in their rich and meaningful life.&nbsp;People with good mental health can experience a manageable range of emotions. All emotions have a function; therefore, anger and anxiety occurs when we experience a threat. They are there to protect us.&nbsp;People with mental illness, their anger and anxiety warning system has gotten too sensitive, too hyperactive, so they have a lot of false alarms and they experience more anger and anxiety to a much greater degree; so instead of reacting in a level 3 or 4, they react on level 8 or 9.&nbsp;People with good mental health are capable of tolerating distress. They are able to acknowledge mindfully what they are feeling and sit with it without being afraid that it is going to completely overwhelm them.&nbsp;They can tolerate the distress when they feel or experience it. We trigger the fight or flight reaction that causes emotional dysregulation and our brain is flooded with stress chemicals therefore we cannot think clearly.&nbsp;To cope with situations triggering distress, one must change the reaction to the situation and instead of being angry, use the energy to be curious to find out what they can do to help or support a person.&nbsp;People with good mental health are able to think clearly and do their job with passion. Difficulty in thinking gives a difficult time to learn and remember things. People with good mental health are able to focus their attention long enough to commit to things from short term to long term memory and remember things. The brain is able to devote attention and resources to learning and memory.&nbsp;Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@susan_wilkinson?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Susan Wilkinson</a>.​

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