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We have spent many of our

Submitted by PS2007 on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 11:58pm.

We have spent many of our sessions talking about finding a definition of mental health, and while we have not found one we have been able to have many great discussions about this issue.  

It seems to me that it is impossible to come up with one universal definition, and that maybe the definition of mental health changes with each person.  Maybe instead of defining mental health we need to be educating doctors to spend more time communicating with their patients and let the patient define the issue, not the doctor.  

While obviously this would create many problems within our health system as it is now, it seems to me the best solution for respecting each person's unique mental health experience.  Maybe if we focus on changing the system we will be more able to define mental health as our perspective on it changes.  

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