“The lesson from positive psychology is that positive mental health
is not just the absence of mental illness.
It is all too commonplace not to be mentally ill but to be
stuck and languishing in life.
Positive mental health is a presence of:
positive emotion
engagement
meaning
good relationships
accomplishment
Being in a state of mental health is not merely being disorder free;
rather it is the presence of flourishing.
Let there be no doubt about this: traditional psychotherapy is
not designed to produce well-being, it is designed
just to curtail misery…”
From Flourish by Martin E. P. Seligman