Maintaining Mental Health

As you have learned in the previous section, one way to improve your personality is to improve your mental health. Your adolescence is the time between your child­hood and your adult years when your personality begins to assume new im­portance for you. During these years you form much of the personality that will be yours in years to come. And it is during these years that the knowl­edge of mental health and personality will be of the most help to you.

The descriptions of four major signs of mental health that appear in this section contain suggestions for main­taining your mental health and im­proving your personality. You can use many of the ideas presented here to help you know yourself and the re­actions you commonly make. You can use the ideas to help you better understand your feelings. They can also help you understand your parents and your relationship to them.