Misunderstanding of certain terms or their one-sided interpretation can lead to an erroneous perception of the situation. That is why people show commendable curiosity and prefer to thoroughly understand the details. For example, is “well-being” a concept that refers only to physical health or to more subtle matters? How to determine if everything is okay with him? What should I look for?
Definition
If we turn to dictionaries, then well-being is a perception of the totality of one’s own physical and mental state. In this case, the question sometimes arises, is the word an unnecessary construction? If a person feels everything, then what is the prefix “self" for, didn’t he still perceive everything through intermediaries?
The fact is that in feelings and sensations one can conditionally distinguish a subject and an object. An object can be material or ephemeral, while the subject only accepts the evoked sensations, evaluates and reacts accordingly. If we are talking about well-being, then the object and subject are one and the same person.
Does health mean health?
Often this concept is confused with physical health, that is, with the absence of a disease in the medical sense. If all body systems work correctly, nothing hurts, no pathologies are observed, then health should be good. If your attending physician is interested in this, he asks you to describe the symptoms, subjectively evaluate, listen to yourself.
However, well-being is not only a well-functioning body. External factors can also change it - some events affecting the psyche. Literally everything affects: circumstances, mood, weather, personal life, everyday turmoil. Sometimes you feel good not because of the excellent factors of influence, but in spite of it. So, there was an internal reserve or some kind of strong positive feeling blocked many negative factors.
The psyche as an important component
Mental strength can largely determine the well-being of a person, any psychologist will confirm this. Unfortunately, doctors do not always listen to the patient’s statement that his state of health does not meet the doctor’s positive forecast. Often, problems with the emotional state indicate hormonal disorders, and this affects the whole body.
It turns out that the self-awareness of all processes that occur not only with the body, but also with the personality, should not be overlooked, because this can be considered an important symptom insignificant. According to popular wisdom, all illnesses happen to us “from nerves”. There is some truth in this, and everything is really connected with the state of mind. It turns out that the general well-being should in no case be limited to physical health.
Attempts to regulate well-being by willpower
When a person feels tired and somehow overwhelmed, the first thing that comes to mind is a disease. First, body temperature is checked, because this is the simplest parameter available to everyone at home. If the temperature is elevated, then an explanation is received, and then you can take the usual treatment measures.
But what if there is no temperature, there are no certain pains either, there was no injury, and well-being still does not appear? Homegrown "psychologists" recommend pulling themselves together, pulling together, mobilizing willpower and stop feeling bad. The advice is strange and for the most part not effective. However, if a person complains of poor health without visible physical illnesses, he is accused of hypochondria, and even pretense.
How to learn to recognize important signals
Our body is designed to such a degree of complexity and unique that inexperience we simply do not recognize the signals that it sends. With grief in half, we determine what state of health can be called bad enough to receive socially approved relief, seek help from a doctor, and go to a well-deserved sick leave.
It is worth remembering that the body will not send signals just like that. Even if the doctors say that the signal that disturbed you is really “just like that,” the heart is fine, and you are just too suspicious. Either the body sends a false signal, which means that something is wrong with the main nerve paths, or the psyche is broken, or the doctors missed something during the examination.
Anxious obsessive states, which are practically not diagnosed by general practitioners, are not reflected in standard analyzes, are not monitored by ultrasound. It is worth contacting a psychiatrist who will first prescribe an in-depth examination for physical health. Doctors note that part of the patients who applied for help not only do not suffer from diseases of a psychiatric profile, but also show an enviable rationality and logic, turning to narrow specialists with doubts.
Well-being is the first parameter of our vitality, and further treatment is based on it. Be more attentive to yourself!