Why do people still insist on calling mental illness or mental distress mental health? I am really glad that there is so much more about the sometimes severe problems that all sorts of people have or had in the media but I wish that we could call the various forms of mental illness by their proper names. That could help so much with understanding and education.
Also there is a qualitative difference between what Freud called common unhappiness and clinical depressive illness. If you have depressive illness it certainly is misery and it persists making so called normal life impossible.
In my long career as a patient within the psychiatric system whenever I have been an inpatient I have never met anyone who has not suffered trauma of some kind whether sudden, sexual, physical drawn out over years, which they have not been able to resolve adequately.
Sorry for the lecture, I just get fed up and irritated that attitudes are so slow to,change. Years ago I said to someone that I wished people could be as open about mental illness as they now are about cancer. She said that would take 50 years. We are getting there faster than that thank goodness and thanks to prominent people who have published their experience.