What is the Difference Between Mental and Emotional Health?

People often view mental and emotional health as the same thing, but mental and emotional processes create different types of stress and issues with daily living. Many people with these issues attempt to deal with them alone or see a traditional practitioner for medication, but holistic medicine can restore your mental and emotional balance in a natural way that connects mind, body, and emotions. 

What is the Difference Between Mental and Emotional Health?

Mental and emotional health are tightly intertwined, and they constantly affect each other. When you feel mentally anxious or depressed, you may respond to a situation with negative thoughts and assumptions. This can cause you to feel emotionally upset. If you feel emotionally distressed, you may begin to have negative thoughts. 

Mental health imbalance can cause people to think of negative things that could happen or focus on negative thoughts, causing anxiety and depression. Emotional health imbalance can lead to a feeling that you have lost control of your emotions or feel depressed or anxious. 

How Does Naturopathic Medicine View Mental and Emotional Health?

To a naturopathic physician like Dr. Cutler, mental and emotional health are two related aspects of one total person. For a person to feel mentally and emotionally healthy, people must find balance in the body and spirit as well.

Rather than a disease to be cured with medication, Dr. Cutler and his team view mental or emotional health issues as imbalances or responses to environmental stressors. Medications cover up symptoms by numbing them but do nothing to resolve the true causes. Instead, Dr. Cutler will work with your prescribing physician regarding your medications, but he will also recommend a lifestyle and nutrition plan that will restore all aspects of the person to a state of health.