Mental Health is such a relative thing. Yes, you can be clinically diagnosed in the DSM V with a mental illness, simply meaning that your life cannot function properly due to thoughts and/or behaviors that interrupt that life and that is, of course, a very serious matter and not to be made fun of in anyway, which I am not doing, by the way! However, we so casually use the term, "mental health," in everyday language to joke about ourselves or even others. For example, you're minding your own business, driving along, on the way to the grocery store, and some "wacko" pulls out into your lane, without stopping or even using his turn signal and you have to suddenly jam on the breaks, which then leads to an immediate thought, "He must be crazy!" Now, he may not really be "crazy," but may have just been bitten on the ankle by his son's lost baby bearded dragon, and thought his life was over, thus in his panic, slammed his foot onto the gas rather than the break. On the other hand, of course, may have not even cared that you were driving in that lane, and decided that he was more important than anyone else, and just pulled out in front of you. Admittedly the latter, is more likely, I know, but it stands to reason, that we judge each other by actions that don't seem to coincide with anything we would even imagine to be logical. We therefore make judgements upon each other's words, actions, and even manner of dress by what we perceive should be normal or sane.
So, I named this blog, "Mental Health is Relative," for no other reason than it is catchy and we can all laugh at those moments in our lives where we imagined someone else had to be "nuts," to do what they did, and they're thinking the same of you.
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