Awareness of mental health is not enough

An art exhibition outside London’s Waterloo station marks Mental Health Awareness Week 2023. Photograph: David Parry/PA

Martha Gill’s argument that mental health definition has become so widened as to become almost meaningless makes a fundamentally important point (Comment). As a society, we have amalgamated several meanings under the umbrella term “mental health”. Mental health should be thought of as three concepts:

• wellbeing that is relevant to all of us, whether we have a mental health disorder or not;