Psychohygiene is a System of Maintaining Mental Health

Authors: Boltivets S

DOI: 10.23880/mhrij-16000189

Volume 6, Issue 2

Abstract

The article presents psychohygiene as a system of measures taken by a person and society as a whole to preserve their own mental health and, therefore, health as a whole, which does not exist without this essential property. Psychohygiene defines the purpose of the efforts necessary to preserve the full-fledged mental health of a person and society and the means of preserving harmonious mental states. The individual standard of mental health of each person is an achievable standard of mental hygiene. Its productivity consists in identifying and preserving the diversity of mental capabilities. The individual mental norm, which preserves life, determines the future of the human population. The psychological content of mental hygiene determines the purpose of all branches of psychological knowledge to create a person’s mental culture, including the culture of his own mental health. Solving the problems of psychohygiene requires integrity and the determination of sufficient and necessary boundaries of the medical, pedagogical, social and psychological spheres of practical solutions to the problems of preserving and strengthening mental health. Life-long changeability leads to the emergence of a vital need to master the consequences of these changes, which is defined in the article as the ability to self-regulate. By its essence, this ability is psychophysiological self-regulation and a means of personal psychohygiene of each person. Mental hygiene of human resistance involves objective hardware fixation of excess or decrease in usual mental functioning within everyday mental states, performance of intellectual and emotional-volitional actions and determination of mental state necessary for rest. An important conclusion of the article is the need to create, develop and implement methods of harmonizing relationships, improving well-being, raising one’s own self-esteem and the level of lifelong harassment as a psychohygienic means of increasing the resistance of each person. 

Keywords: Mental Hygiene; Mental States; Individual Norm; Ability to Self-Regulate; Lifelong Variability; Mental Functioning

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