mental health

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Noun

mental health (uncountable)

1. (psychology) One's emotional well-being, especially with reference to one's outlook on life, ability to cope with stress or the absence of a mental disorder.

   Alternative form: (abbreviation) MH

   • 2020 July 1, Paul Stephen, “Vital Connections”, in Rail, page 41:

     This makes greater efforts to promote wellbeing and to look out for colleagues not just a moral imperative, but a financial one, too. The cost of inaction was recently outlined in a report by Deloitte, which estimated that poor mental health costs employers in the UK up to £45 billion per year.

Translations

emotional well-being

• Arabic: صِحَّة نَفْسِيَّة f (ṣiḥḥa(t) nafsiyya)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܠܡܵܢܵܐ ܢܲܦ̮ܫܵܢܵܝܵܐ m (ḵulmānā nafšānāyā)
• Burmese: စိတ်ကျန်းမာရေး (citkyan:mare:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理健康 (xīnlǐ jiànkāng), 精神衛生 / 精神卫生 (jīngshén wèishēng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: geestelijke gezondheid f, mentale gezondheid f
• Finnish: mielenterveys (fi)
• Hebrew: בְּרִיאוּת נַפְשִׁית f (briút nafshít)
• Hindi: मानसिक स्वास्थ्य m (mānsik svāsthya)
• Hungarian: mentális/lelki egészség
• Portuguese: saúde mental f
• Russian: душе́вное здоро́вье n (dušévnoje zdoróvʹje), психи́ческое здоро́вье (ru) n (psixíčeskoje zdoróvʹje)
• Spanish: salud mental f
• Swahili: afya ya akili
• Swedish: psykisk hälsa (sv) c
• Tagalog: isipning lusog
• Vietnamese: sức khoẻ tâm thần, sức khoẻ tinh thần
• Welsh: iechyd meddwl m

See also

• mental hygiene