Emotional Health vs Mental Health

Mental health influences your thoughts & actions, it covers 3 main types of well being:

• Psychological

• Social

• Emotional

The status of your mental health can affect many different areas of your life, from your ability to manage stress to how well you maintain your relationships with others. There are a wide range of symptoms associated with mental health problems, including severe changes in mood, feeling a lack of energy, overeating or under-eating, insomnia, excessive sleeping, and increased use of drugs and alcohol.

Like mental health, the phrase emotional health can easily be used in conversation, even if no one is quite sure about the term’s meaning. Emotional health is having both an awareness of your emotions and the ability to manage and express those feelings in an age-appropriate manner. There are no instant fixes for bettering your emotional health; however, there are many steps you can take to improve it. For instance, try to identify the positive in situations and work on developing your strengths instead of focusing on any perceived weaknesses.

While mental and emotional health are similar in some respects, it is important to remember that these terms are ultimately very different. Some differences that separate mental health from emotional include:

Difference #1: Processing Information Versus Expressing Emotion

Part of mental health is how well your mind processes and understands information and experiences. In contrast, emotional health involves your ability to manage and express the emotions that arise from what you have learned and experienced.

Difference #2: One Can Thrive While the Other Struggles

An important distinction between mental and emotional health is that you can experience mental health issues while maintaining good emotional health, and vice versa. For example, while struggling with a mental health problem like having little energy for daily tasks, you can still exhibit emotional health by finding effective ways to manage that lack of energy.

Difference #3: The Scope of the Two Terms

Mental health is not only about how well you understand and process what you experience. It also includes your ability to carefully reason through decisions and maintain a steady, focused attention span. The wide scope of mental health puts it in sharp contrast to emotional health, which has the more focused definition of actively understanding and managing your emotions.

(Borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life).

It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships. With borderline personality disorder, you have an intense fear of abandonment or instability, and you may have difficulty tolerating being alone. Yet inappropriate anger, impulsiveness and frequent mood swings may push others away, even though you want to have loving and lasting relationships.

This can make emotional health and mental health very hard to deal with, but remember there is hope and a lot of success stories from others with bpd regarding emotional and mental health.

You may refer to my other blog on Borderline Personality Disorder if you would like further information regarding that subject.

I will also make two other separate blogs each relating fully to the subject of Emotional Wellness and Mental Health Issues on the right positive track that you deserve.

I hope this blog has helped you understand the differences between Emotional Health and Mental Health, and I hope to see you all on my next blogs describing in full what each is, how we can cope, and how we can utilize steps to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. See you all soon

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