Mental health is an important issue facing Australia today. It is estimated that nearly 20% of the population suffer from a mental health problem in 2012 alone.The most common mental health problems that people fear and / or depression suffers. This article focuses on the mental health legislation and is seeking ways to more optimistic about overcoming these problems.

A world-renowned authority on happiness research by Dr. Martin Seligman has a different view in relation to the mental health profession of clinical psychology has taken in the past. Until the late 1990s, mental health, as is, “What’s wrong with you?” People with a diagnosis was designed. For example, “you’re depressed!”"Can not wait!” “You’re bi-polar!” These diagnoses based on DSM-IV. DSM-V will be available in 2013. DSM-IV describes in detail the psychological symptoms for each problem and clinical psychologists and psychiatrists were able to diagnose, “labeling people”, treating them on that basis.

Seligman played a role in the so-called “positive psychology” movement, which moves away from the “labeling” or “diagnostic” approach to the positive focus announced. In his book, Learned Optimism that detailed methods (based on research) on how your happiness and mental health (detailed at the end of this article) to improve and introduced a concept called optimism. What is the way that people look at the success and failure in life (see later in article).
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