Mental state

Mental state may refer to:

• In clinical psychology and psychiatry, an indication of a person's mental health, as determined by a mental status examination
• In cognitive psychology and the philosophy of mind, a kind of hypothetical state or process that corresponds to thinking and feeling, consisting of a conglomerate of mental representations and propositional attitudes
• In Buddhism, a translation of the term cetasika, which is defined as aspects of the mind that apprehend the quality of an object, and that have the ability to color the mind.

See also

• Altered state of consciousness, a mental state that is different from the normal state of consciousness
• Flow (psychology), the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus
• Mental factors (Buddhism)
• Mood (psychology), an emotional state
• Propositional attitude, a relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition