What is good mental health?

As you have just seen, young people have different views on what good mental health is. Mental health is not easy to describe because it consists of different aspects. Here are a few of the most important ones:

Mental health is about dealing with feelings and thoughts

Someone with a good mental health:

feels good about him or herselfcan think positivelycan enjoy thingscan do his or her (school) workcan deal with common setbacks, such as a flat tire or a bad test scorefeels comfortable interacting with other people