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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