This study begins from the thesis of Ehrenberg in which the idea is established that current the clinical activity, extends itself to mental suffering overall and is no longer restricted to care with the pathological dimension of human experience. This is the constitution of the field of mental health in which the psychopathology becomes a smaller area. Since the practice was no longer specified by the pathological character of its object, we put into question the relations between the normal and pathological behind the attention on mental health. Thus, we began our research in examining the concepts of normal and pathological that marked the emergence of clinical activity. Then, we look at Freudian psychopathology in order to highlight the specificity of the psychopathological phenomenon in relation to other types of human suffering. Finally, in light of the Freudian formulations about the difference between inhibition and symptom, we assume the conceptual identity between psychological distress and inhibition, analyzing the changes in relations between the normal and the pathological that are behind the various methods of psychological suffering adopted as clinically relevant.   Keywords: psychological suffering; normal and pathological; Freud; Ehrenberg; mental health.