Mental health is a physical process
"Mental" health has very little to do with our minds. A nervous system stuck in a fight, flight, or freeze response will show the exact symptoms as clinical depression or pathological anxiety.
The nervous system is not an illness or disorder. It is doing exactly what it is designed to do. When a brain is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze it is misattuning to safety and danger in the environment.
If we see mental health as an actual physical process, then we have a greater chance of finding our way to tools that can get ourselves unstuck.
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