<p>Great mental health problems, such as depression and suicide, more and more present in contemporaneous scenario, are analyzed through mental rigidity, as opposed to resilience, assumed as mental flexibility, capable of promoting mental health. Creativity, averse to imitation, plagiarism, routine, copy or repetition, represent the antidote to the various kinds of compulsions and obsessive thoughts. Throughout theoretical and conceptual propositions, the study state that creativity embeds mental health as basic element, as well as to the full development of the individual.</p>