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Mental health

noun

The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.

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"Mental health" Quotes from Famous Books

... wrong. You forget the dollars. A big crowd of solicitors will get busy, and they'll get some high-brow doctors on the job, and the end of it all will be that they'll say my brain was unhinged. I shall spend a few months in a quiet sanatorium, my mental health will improve, the doctors will declare me sane again, and all will end happily for little Julius. I guess I can bear a few months' retirement in order to rid the world of you, but don't you kid yourself ...

— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

... rhythm, being fully satisfied that, thanks to it, man will regain his natural powers of expression, and at the same time his full motor faculties, and that art has everything to hope from new generations brought up in the cult of harmony, of physical and mental health, ...

— The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze • Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

... when an afternoon spent in sewing gives some idea of incipient insanity. This lengthy discussion of the woman's art of sewing can only be excused on the ground that it touches the question of physical and mental health. As a means of support, the needle can hardly be spoken ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

... rectitude. Happily, 'time and necessity' effected a cure. In two succeeding cantos in verse W. S. is introduced in dialogue with Willobie, and he gives him, in oratio recta, light-hearted and mocking counsel which Willobie accepts with results disastrous to his mental health. ...

— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee

... idleness. We see these victims everywhere shorn of power—weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Without work mental health is impossible and without health ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

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