I have mental health

I’ve heard it loads, it rings a bell from the Tyson Fury thing I saw clips of, too (not 100% sure). It’s as annoying as when people say “I’m OCD” which I’ve heard lots over the years and really grates.

Plenty do, but I think your brain has been subconsciously filling in the missing word in quite a few other posts. Because I've definitely seen it here multiple times.

@Makeitmakesensetoday you have read my mind- the number of times people on here say they have mental health when they mean the exact opposite. Every time I think if you have mental health that's lovely but it's never what they mean

Makes no sense. But I've never seen this on MN?

People usually say 'I have poor MH' or 'I have MH problems'

I agree with you OP.

But I'm equally irritated by the prevalence of people ending statements with question marks these days.

"But it doesn't make any sense?"

I hope this was a typo!

I think some people now use "mental health" as a synonym for "stress" or "anxiety", in the way we use "a temperature" to mean "a fever". In that context "my mental health was through the roof" would make perfect sense to the writer as they mean it in an "I was stressed to the eyeballs" way.

People say it a lot. On a recent thread someone said it about themselves while (somewhat ironically) complaining that the self description of being 'registered' disabled was 'meaningless'. It doesn't bother me. I know what they mean and that's the important part of communication surely?

I read a post yesterday or the day before that used it (but used 'I have MH' rather than the full words. But I'm not going to search it and link it because that would be an awful thing to do to the person who posted it.

I've heard it in real life and read it on here multiple times. I always itch to say "do you mean 'poor mental health'? But of course I don't, because it would be a shitty thing to do to someone who's struggling.

But yes, it's one of those things that irritates, along with people calling every school holiday 'half term'.

I work in Mental Health and have never heard anyone say this.

I’ve heard ‘poor mental health’, ‘mental ill health’, ‘good mental health’ etc.

I agree. I usually see it on social media and tend to assume that the writer is not particularly articulate.

This drives me mad too.

Totally agree. It doesnt make sense. I have mental ill health, I'm mentally unwell, or I have mental health issues seems appropriate to me however if I hear someone ranting 'It's my mental health' it's pretty obvious what they mean and I'd not bother correcting them. I might though intervene in a calm conversation where someone says 'I've got mental health'...maybe say "oh that's good, lm glad you're feeling well.....oh you mean mental ILL heath! Oh sorry to hear that "

I’ve not seen that one yet thankfully. ‘Through the floor’ would be a reasonable metaphor!

If you've got mental health then you're lucky. It's the people who have a mental illness that I feel sorry for!

I worked in an allied field 15 years ago, and used to fulminate about it to friends.

I mean you're right, it doesn't make any sense, but then most posters seem to know what it means when said in context.
People have the right to be annoyed by it, but in all honesty when I was in the middle of poor mental health a few times in my teens and twenties and struggling to do anything, feeling worthless, truly in my own head and backed up by other people's obvious annoyance at my existence (how I saw it then anyway) reading something like this about the phrasing of my mental state at the time would have just completely confirmed what a complete waste of space I was and would be yet another way I annoyed people and how I couldn't even get reaching out for help right because I said it wrong and quite frankly deserve to be the butt of everyone's jokes and ridicule.

I mean now in a better place, I have to ask - what exactly is the impact of reading or hearing that, especially when as this thread shows, it's generally understood what the person saying it means? The person may be reaching out, admitting there's a problem yet they deserve derision and ridicule because they said it the wrong way.
Haven't really come as far as we'd like to tell ourselves where dealing with any type of mental health is concerned as society I don't think.

Some MN are nosy & want to know what MH issues people have, that’s why they say that it doesn’t make sense as it just won’t be acceptable in their nosy little world

Nonsense. It's because it doesn't make sense. People are saying it should be 'I have bad MH' or 'I have MH problems'. They aren't saying everyone should state 'I have depression' etc.

Anyway, no it doesn't properly make sense, but it would be very disingenuous to claim you don't understand what they mean.

Actually, your mental health IS impacted. By every single little thing you do. Mental health 'issues' occur when the impacts are no longer manageable or bearable.

Mental health is a spectrum.

Genuinely don’t know if this is good or bad. It sounds good - really high mental health. But nobody would say that would they? I guess they mean really poor mental health?

Annoys me no end . I want to scream yes we all have mental health doh

Everyone knows what it means though.

Yep- drives me mental. It would really mean your mental state was healthy surely. I.E I have physical health= I am healthy. I have physical health problems= there are problems with my physical health