What is Mental Wealth?

Today, I want to speak about the term ‘Mental Wealth’, what is meant by the term mental wealth? I had this conversation with my mother who has hypomania and she liked the term because it was not only looking at ways of coping with mental health but having a different perspective on yourself and on the thoughts that you have within your mind. As hypomania is a personality disorder and when looking at psychosis, anxiety and depression we are affected in different ways and although we have coping strategies, medication, we sometimes can have relapses that make life difficult, this understanding that we have the support from those around us and there is a wealth of knowledge and that things are okay and can be okay though we have negative thought processes. So mental wealth is looking at all the external and internal things that we can use to help us and that we can empower ourselves through the suffering.

To have a positive emotional well-being and mental health is looking at what triggers us and how we think. So, looking at our thought patterns and how we respond to external situations and also if we can look back and assess our past if it’s conducive to our outcomes. In order to sometimes heal or move on from a particular time in our lives we first have to find the faith and courage to approach that time of trauma, loss, grief etc. So, I wanted to summarise on a positive note that there is many resources and ways we can get help and also, it’s for those that want to learn how to help those that are suffering and that it is so beneficial to support those in need by self-education and how to change our negative perspectives on mental health.