Jan 13, 2016
All current medical treatments for
mental illnesses are palliative,…
Any Anxiety Disorders
Substance Use Disorders
Any Mood Disorders
13.3%
14.9%
Different Things
About or Exactly The Same Thing
ANY MENTAL ILLNESS
Health is more than the absence,
it is something positive
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Happy
Satisfied
Interested in Life
91% 93%
USA UK
How happy are you with your life overall these days?
Would you say you feel “very happy,” “quite happy,” or “not very happy”?
PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
Self-Acceptance
Positive Relations with Others
Personal Growth
Purpose in Life
Environmental Mastery
Autonomy
SOCIAL WELL-BEING
Social Acceptance
Social Integration
Social Contribution
Social Coherence
Social Growth
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
SOCIAL WELL-BEING
PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
POSITIVE FUNCTIONING
POSITIVE FEELING
Aristotle Epicurus
Feeling Good
Functioning Well
Low
Moderate
Striving
Settling
Languishing
Flourishing
15%
85%
Any Mental Illness
No Mental Illness
2.7%
45.0%
Any Mental Illness
No Mental Illness
Flourishing
Moderate
Languishing
34.8%
6.2%6.8%4.6%
13%
87%
Any Mental Illness
No Mental Illness
1.9%
48.0%
Any Mental Illness
No Mental Illness
Flourishing
Moderate
Languishing
37.0%
1.6%8.7%2.8%
48.0%
Any Mental Illness
No Mental Illness
37.0%
1.6%
45.0%
34.8%
6.2%
Anything less than flourishing results in problems.
2
FlourishingModerateLanguishing
4
1
15
SUICIDAL STUDENTS
28
4
1
15
18
7
FlourishingModerateLanguishing
SUICIDAL STUDENTS
The absence of flourishing can be as bad as the presence of mental illness.
3
Interacting
Helping Others
Learning Something
New
Spiritual Activity
Playing
Exercising
Flourishing
Not FlourishingDepressed
LESS MORE
MalesFemales
13.2%
8.5%
Anything Less Than Flourishing
In Adults
1. More Cardiovascular Disease
2. More Disability
3. Premature Death
4. More Missed Days of Work
5. More Cutbacks on Workdays
6. More Overnight Hospitalizations
7. More Medical Visits (Physical)
8. More Medical Visits (Mental)
9. More Prescription Meds
Anything Less Than Flourishing
Adolescents and College Students
1. Suicide Ideation
2. Intention to drop out of school
3. Conduct Problems
4. Academic impairment
5. Lower grades
6. Procrastination
7. Fixed vs. Malleable Mindset
8. Performance vs. mastery goals
9. Lack of self control
10.Low curiosity
Health may be more serious than illness.
4
1995
MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG U.S. ADULTS
2005
18.5% 17.5%
1995
MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG U.S. ADULTS
2005
18.5% 17.5%
NEWCASES
Started with Mental Illness
5
Stayed Languishing
6.6
8.2
Declined toLanguishing
RISK OF DEVELOPING MENTAL ILLNESS
Started with Mental Illness
5
Stayed Languishing
6.6
8.2
Declined toLanguishing
RISK OF DEVELOPING MENTAL ILLNESS
10.4% of the U.S. adult population
3.9% 6.5%+ =
Started with Mental Illness
5
Stayed Moderate
4.43.7
Declined toModerate
Improved toModerate
3.4
RISK OF DEVELOPING MENTAL ILLNESS
Started with Mental Illness
5
RISK OF DEVELOPING MENTAL ILLNESS
Stayed Moderate
4.43.7
Declined toModerate
Improved toModerate
3.4
48.1% of the U.S. adult population
4.8% 35.5%+ + 7.8%
6 OUT OF 10 U.S. ADULTS ARE NOT
FLOURISHING
5 OUT OF 10 U.S. COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE NOT FLOURISHING
What lowers the bad does not necessarily increase the good.
5
1. Illness is specific; health is‘something positive’
2. Single continuum
3. Mental illness is a burden
4. Too much mental illness
5. Illness is more serious
1. Mental health is specific and measurable
2. Two continuum
3. Not flourishing is a burden
4. Too little flourishing
5. Health is more serious
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