Working with a Mental Illness
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If you are mentally distressed, work can help you get better faster.
The term resilience is often translated as "resistance".
Common resilience models contrast risk factors (also: stressors) on the one hand, protective factors (also: protectors) on the other.
Risk factors can be, for example:
Examples of protective factors are:
Resilience means keeping risk and protective factors at least in balance – ideally, nurturing the protective factors and perhaps even expanding them. The stronger our own resilience is, the better we can cope with difficult situations and stay healthy.