The Mental Health Continuum

I've recently been looking at the mental health continuum, and it is interesting because it is similar to a diagnostic tool. As with so many things involved in mental health, it is a tool to tell you how well 'normal' or unwell 'not normal' you are. Obviously, there is room for this type of tool in the toolbox of those who have a mental health experience; however, I am wondering if there might be additional tools that have not been thought about before that might be of more use to help a person who has or is having a mental health experience to navigate and destigmatize themselves, whilst also improving their sense of self regardless of how they fit on the current diagnostic continuum of mental health. In terms of neurodiversity, the spectrum or, let's say, continuum is circular in shape and comes from a central point, whereas the mental health continuum goes from left to right. Left being well and green in color and right being unwell and red in color. Is this not stigmatizing in itself? How do we feel about ourselves when we are in the much-maligned red category? Can we be in the red category and still feel a sense of rightness within ourselves? After all, there are many who are in the green category and experience a distinct disease and unhappiness in life. Is there a different, more approachable, and beneficial way of producing a mental health continuum? I believe there is. Let's find it together; let's end mental health stigma and self-stigma.