Mental Health Resilience
Are you someone who can take things on the chin, laugh off misfortune or when things go wrong you suffer from anxiety attacks and fall apart. Mental resilience, sometimes seen as mental toughness, is the ability to endure life’s challenges and come back from adversity. This inner strength can be seen as mental resilience which enables someone to recover from relationship difficulties, money problems or even a serious health problem
When someone losses that confidence, direction in life or in religious terms a loss of faith then that resilience becomes weaker and can lead into mental ill health, which can be characterised by poor decision making, isolation, enhanced levels of stress or concern about the future.
'The better you are with people the more successful your life is likely to be’.
Emotional resilience can be seen as dealing with something in the moment such as confrontation and how they react to a situation and can be seen to help with a sense of optimism when things aren’t going that well.
Someone’s resilience can be influenced by traumatic events that happened in childhood, it could be a physical illness and or genetics.
Mental Toughness can be characterised by the ability to keep calm and collected or ‘cool’ when things aren’t going right or you are put under immense pressure at work whether it’s highly complex tasks or just the volume of work
With resilience we are able to think more clearly can react in a way that is acceptable to society with processing our feelings whether they are sadness, anger or even grief. Even those with a recognised mental health issue they can build up a resilience to life’s challenges. One commentator said ‘The better you are with people the more successful your life is likely to be’. This relates to work, friends and relationships.