Essential Evil Called Mental Health: Why Is It Important

Positive psychology and its contributions must be immensely celebrated as the young branch of psychology attempts to celebrate positive emotions. Unconditional regard, healthy joyous emotions were never accepted as an important factor in adolescent growth and development. Academicians, counsellors, psychologists and sociologists for long have been talking about healthy child rearing and upbringing but the ways to enhance the same were not looked into. With passing year, variables like gratitude, emotional affect, satisfaction with life, mental health, positive and negative regard and well being are now being put in light of adolescents upbringing and development. Counselling sessions are held and workshops delivered to teach ways of enhancing mental health and positive emotions- this is a very positive change and must truly be celebrated. Present paper delves into more reasons to talk about mental health and its essential role in today’s scenario across gender, situations and emotions.