Resilience, Stress, and Mental Health

Abstract

This chapter explains the role of resilience in dealing stress effectively and to ensure good mental health. In the phase of COVID-19, people passed through different types of stresses ranging from social to economic, which affected the mental health of individuals. Resilience is a skill, pretty much like an asset provided to all individuals by nature, but its effective usage tends to prevent stress, anxiety, and depression. Resilience is a dynamic system of interaction with varying events of life. Facing a severe trauma and rising up from the downfall with greater strength than earlier represents adaptation of the individual. It is important to understand that resilience develops from day-to-day events and it can be learned at any age. Understanding of resilience as a process is more practical because it suggests that odds in life can tilt into positives. Children, youth, or even adults suffering from mental health issues can be treated and directed towards normal life as before. In order to do so, one must focus on the scientific perspective of resilience as a process.