mental health

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 5 04:37:39 UTC 2010


  Very minor point:

Mental healthy vs. mentally healthy?

http://bit.ly/bk0s6C
> But he was also influential because his theory told many of the
> cultural elites of the era that they were objectively more mental
> healthy and more psychologically developed than were their opponents.

http://bit.ly/cDuaqZ
> Mentally healthy persons are in the process of actualizing their
> potential.

vs.

http://bit.ly/cQKYnZ
> However, the National Mental Health Association cites 10
> characteristics of people who are mentally healthy.

http://bit.ly/92g4PN
> In my opinion, mentally healthy people will show the following
> characteristics at least 95% of the time...

Just on sheer numbers it's 35 thousand vs. 4.5 million (raw). But, to be
honest, I don't even see how there could be 35 thousand. (Many are
spurious.)

     VS-)

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