INTRODUCTION Mental health is the state of psychological well-being that includes both subjective comfort and the capacity to function effectively with others, the definition of mental health invariably includes some value.a statement about how an individual should live bis or .her life; thus there are almost as many psychological theories. Mental health means more than the absence of unidentifiable disorder or mental illness, positive mental Jiealth includes the ability to experience joy or to have a ''peak experience" Attempts have been made to relate mental health, not only to specific acts which are dependent on cultural noIIDs but to patterns styles of acting, such as flexibility in meeting new situations, ability to perceive, reality without 4istortion, biked on it. dividual need and the capacity to understand someone else's point of view, , some psychologists, such as 'R.D. LAING' & ' THOMAS SZASZ argue that the terms mental health and mental illness should be dropped altogether because of issues. regarding how people are to live are moral and legal rather than psychological or scientific. Sigmund Freud's famous view that health is the capacity "to work and to love" is still widely accepted.