Mental health and emotional wellbeing is not just the absence of mental illness. It includes our emotional, physical and social wellbeing and affects our feelings, our thinking, our emotions and our moods.
Like physical health, mental health is something we all have. Just because we can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not important and we shouldn’t talk about it. It can range across a spectrum from healthy to unwell; we all have small feelings that can vary from day to day, and at different points in the day, but it’s when we experience big feelings which don’t go away, that can affect our mental health. These feelings can stop us getting on with out lives, they can change how we feel, our behaviour and how we see the world.