This community exists for one reason: To question a narrow definition of mental health that dominates modern culture. Most approaches today focus on what’s happening inside the person — brain chemistry, symptoms, thought patterns, childhood history, identity, trauma. For many people, this leads to endless self-analysis, constant management, and a feeling of being stuck in their own head. Sometimes medication is necessary. Sometimes therapy is essential. This space isn’t against either. But for a growing number of people, understanding more about the mind doesn’t resolve the distress. The explanations get better — yet life still feels flat. Anchored exists to explore a different question: What if mental health is not just something you carry inside your head, but rather, an internal reflection of where you choose to direct your actions? This community is about: - shifting attention away from endless inward focus and self-analysis - examining how meaning, responsibility, and direction shape mental health - understanding why the mind often stabilises as a by-product of self-forgetting, not self-fixing There are no quick fixes here. No motivational hype. No pressure to share or perform vulnerability. A place to question a narrow definition of mental health — and to explore why direction, not endless self-analysis, is often what steadies the mind over time. If you’re here, start by reading. Let the ideas work on you before you work on them. More soon.