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Mental Health is (maybe)

Submitted by mstokes on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 3:09pm.

the ability to function in one's environment--making informed choices, contributing to and drawing from resources, helping and benefiting from others--in a responsible manner. It assumes a certain self-regulating and self-monitoring capacity, to ensure that one is not exceeding "reasonable" boundaries in relationships or use of resources.

 

(I look forward to seeing you all Monday night, and apologize for my own migraine-induced brain troubles that caused my absence last week!)


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