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To begin, let's define mental health, and we'll use the definition from the US Department of the Health and Human Services. They define mental health as—I'm going to start this slide over again. To begin, let's define mental health, and here we'll use the definition from the US Department of Health and Human Services, where they define mental health as a state of successful performance of mental function resulting in productive activities—productive activities you could think of as work, going to school—fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt and change and to cope with adversity, and adversity here could be many different things; we all encounter some form of adversity in our daily lives, and so that could really apply to many different aspects within our daily routines and lives.