- Mental health is not about feeling good or calm or relaxed. It’s about having feelings that fit the circumstances you’re in and then managing those feelings well, even if those feelings are negative or unpleasant. ---- "“Mental health is not about feeling good or calm or relaxed,” she told me when we spoke on Zoom in May, days after the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory about the ill effects of social media on tweens and teens. “It’s about having feelings that fit the circumstances you’re in and then managing those feelings well, even if those feelings are negative or unpleasant.”" - [Link](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-parent-of-a-teen-ager-is-an-emotional-garbage-collector)