Wellness is a duality of illness.
We can all be diagnosed on a relative scale of illness & wellness as being relatively well or relatively ill.
Whether I am ill or well is a subjective discernment that can be influenced by the objective diagnosis of a medical professional.
The medical profession diagnoses illness. It sees wellness as the absence of an illness that is either physical (medical) or mental (psychotic).
Wellbeing is a state of being Well.
It has no duality.
Wellbeing is a positive emotional state of being in balance & harmony.
The experience of positive emotion is the experience of wellbeing.
I cannot experience a negative emotion and feel well.
The more positive the emotion that I am feeling, the more well-being that I am experiencing.
I cannot develop my sense of wellbeing from a state of illness, only from a state of already being well.
Wellbeing is the experience of overcoming the duality of illness & wellness.
Being well requires the emotional intelligence of understanding emotional states of being and the ability to consciously choose them.
I cannot have emotional needs and consider my Self to be well.
Consciously meeting my emotional needs is a prerequisit to Wellbeing.