Three Key Periods on How to Nurture Yourself

World Mental Health Day is celebrated on October 10th, 2025. This year’s national theme is ‘Access to Mental Health Services for Everyone’. How can we determine if someone’s mental health is sound? Psychologist Antonovsky’s theory of ‘salutogenesis’ posits that mental health is an ongoing process of coping with stress and dynamic adjustments. Mentally healthy individuals exhibit three main characteristics: comprehensibility (believing stress is understandable), manageability (having confidence in managing stress), and meaningfulness (viewing stress as worthy of engagement, finding personal and global meaning). These perceptions create psychological coherence, helping us maintain inner strength in life.