Ideas in this flowchart

• Mental health encompasses wellbeing, functioning, and human potential.
• The WHO describes mental health through several dimensions.
• These dimensions include subjective wellbeing, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, and competence.
• They also include inter-generational dependence and self-actualization of intellectual and emotional potential.
• The WHO connects individual wellbeing with the realization of personal abilities.
• Wellbeing includes coping with normal stresses of life.
• Wellbeing also includes productive work and contribution to the community.
• The definition of mental health is affected by cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories.
• Cultural differences influence how mental health is defined.
• Subjective assessments influence how mental health is defined.
• Competing professional theories influence how mental health is defined.
• A widely accepted specialist definition is Freud's capacity “to work and to love.”