- Mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities, as well as other mental states associated with a high degree of distress, functional disability, or risk of self-injurious behavior.
- The aspects that most affect emotional health are experiences of sadness, stress, worry, anger and pain.
- All WHO Member States have committed to apply the Comprehensive Action Plan on Mental Health to improve this area before 2030.
When talking about health, the mistake of only taking into account the physical aspect is often made and the emotional aspect is forgotten. To achieve total well-being it is necessary to contemplate both because the two are related to each other. Otherwise, problems begin that do not allow real tranquility to be achieved.
How is full well-being achieved?
In this sense, the WHO describes the mental health as a state of well-being that allows people to face the stressful moments of life, develop all their abilities, be able to learn and work properly, and contribute to the improvement of their community.
It is an essential part of the health and well-being that underpins individual and collective capacities to make decisions, build relationships and shape the world in which we live. Mental health is also a fundamental human right. And an essential element for personal, community and socioeconomic development.
Something very important is that it is more than the mere absence of mental disorders. It occurs in a complex process that each person experiences differently, with varying degrees of difficulty and distress, and social and clinical outcomes that can be very different.
Mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities, as well as other mental states associated with a high degree of distress, functional disability, or risk of self-injurious behavior. People who suffer from them are more likely to experience lower levels of mental well-being, although this is not necessarily always the case.
The countries with the worst levels of emotional health in the world
On the other hand, the levels of emotional health They are not the same all over the world. To identify the most affected nations, the Gallup consultancy published the results of the investigation Who Are the Unhappiest People in the World?
One of the first conclusions is that unhappiness was on the rise from 2021 and remained in 2022. “As the world in general became a sadder, more worried and more stressed place.” Yet in two countries, more people lived in poverty than anywhere else on the planet: Afghanistan and Lebanon.
In the survey both registered the two highest scores in the world. The figure is based on the people’s daily experiences of sadness, stress, worry, anger, and physical pain. Higher scores on the index mean that more than one population is experiencing these emotions.
Within this work replicated by Statista the other countries considered to have the worst levels of emotional health are Iraq, Sierra Leone, Jordan and Turkey. In all cases, these are nations that are going through armed conflicts or with poverty problems that affect the majority of the inhabitants.
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