Tiga juta rakyat Malaysia disahkan sakit mental
SUNGAI PETANI 22 Nov. - Sebanyak 16 peratus atau tiga juta daripada 26 juta penduduk di negara ini disahkan mengalami sakit mental dan jumlah ini adalah sesuatu yang membimbangkan, kata Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.
Katanya, penemuan data terbaru Kajian Kesihatan dan Morbiditi Kebangsaan bagi tahun 2006 mendapati kes gangguan mental di kalangan rakyat Malaysia meningkat sebanyak hampir 6 peratus berbanding kajian yang dijalankan 10 tahun lepas.
Beliau berkata, daripada jumlah itu, sebanyak 20.3 peratus adalah di kalangan kanak-kanak dan remaja berusia bawah 16 tahun.
“Antara faktor tekanan jiwa di kalangan remaja adalah kerana gagal mendapat keputusan yang baik dalam peperiksaan, tekanan daripada keluarga dan sekolah, serta tiada sokongan masyarakat,” kata beliau kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan Hari Kesihatan Mental Sedunia peringkat kebangsaan di sini hari ini.
Katanya, ada di antara murid sekolah tertekan kerana tidak mendapat semua A dalam peperiksaan dan kemudiannya mereka dihina dan dikatakan bodoh serta tidak berguna untuk hidup, jadi mereka mengambil jalan mudah untuk menyelesaikan masalah iaitu dengan membunuh diri.
Chua berkata, daripada jumlah itu juga, sebanyak 11.2 peratus adalah pesakit di kalangan orang dewasa dan 19.5 paratus di kalangan warga emas yang berusia melebihi 70 tahun.
“Masalah kesihatan mental tidak boleh dipandang ringan, beban penyakit itu memberi kesan kepada masyarakat dan negara, dan kos perubatan untuk pesakit mental adalah semakin tinggi, manakala pesakit pula sering tidak mendapatkan rawatan awal kerana percayakan rawatan bomoh,” kata beliau.
Kes membunuh diri juga didapati semakin meningkat dengan sebanyak 20 hingga 30 orang daripada setiap 100,000 rakyat Malaysia membunuh diri setiap tahun.
Beliau berkata, kementerian juga mengalami masalah kekurangan pakar psikitiari kerana stigma masyarakat untuk menjadi pakar jiwa.
“Ada orang kita menggelar pakar jiwa `doktor gila’ dan ini menyebabkan kursus perubatan psikitiari tidak begitu popular sehingga sekarang,” kata beliau.
Katanya, setakat ini, cuma terdapat 145 orang pakar psikitiari dan negara memerlukan lebih 300 pakar lagi dalam bidang itu untuk mencapai nisbah 50 pesakit bagi seorang psikitiari.
Chua berkata, sehubungan itu, kerajaan mahu usaha mempertingkat kesedaran mengenai kesihatan mental ditambah.
- Bernama
~~its my routine daily to read the newspaper from various webs..utusan,bharian,thestar,pravda,moscowtimes,hmetro...i always looking forward to know the real life out there...this morning, i surf the internet as usual and i came across this shocking but expected news from wwww.utusan.com.my.. the moment i read it, straight away, thousands of questions keep on popping inside my head..how can they PRECISELY asses the mental ilness?? eventhough i'm a medical student..i do know there are some criterias..in fact there's a lot.. be it selfish, inconsiderate, depress,jealousy, and lots more i must say..it's considered as the symptoms of mental illness..but, it all depends on the severity of the symptoms..so, that makes me wonder...what's the real base and the guideline of the research? maybe they took it from the counselors or the hospitals document..but, that shows how inaccurate the statistics shows, right? so, it means that AT LEAST 16 % of malaysian's citizen suffer from this silence killer....hmmmmmmmm...sigh again..maybe that explains how malaysian's citizen can do such gruesome killing of nurin ..or the bombing of altantuya's body..or the burning of his own mother in penang few days before..hmmmm...so, the goverment should think of the solution...it has to be back to the root of the problem back..we have to analyse..what triggers the mental illness..we have to prevent since childhood..we all know the makings of our personality starts from young..as early as 4 years old..or even less..so, who is responsible of this? of course its the family institution..but, how does the family affects the development of the offsprings? it goes back to the parents..and it goes back to the parents' experience during childhood..so, its a non ending cycle which we call it as viscious cycle..so, we have to do something that breaks this cycle..we, i mean all..we all have to participate in curbing this phenomenon..if we dont take any preventive measures. i'm not suprised one day our country will be called as the schizo country..so..how can we prevent it? i'll add it afterwards..i'm already late for my class..so gtg..
Friday, November 23, 2007
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salam maryam..
welcome to blogger!!! akhirnya maryam berblog gak.. yeay, dapat kawan baru.. rajin2 la update ye.. jangan jadi macam kite.. malas.. heheh..
hehehe..tengah ade mood nih..anyway..rajin2 lah menjenguk..heheh
Hi maryam, Kak Tembam here. Just visiting cos you mentioned Nurin in your blog. Article tu tak specify the type of mental illness Malaysian's suffer from. Depression pun boleh kira mental illness jugak kan? There is so much we Malaysians may not know about mental illness because our soceity tend to say "dibuat orang" rather tan consider maybe there is an underlying cause that can be treated by medication. In the old days the mentally ill would be kept locked up sebab malu. Many can be cured but if we don;t seek proper medical attention they linger in suffering. Sedihkan.
Anywa I hope you will find out more about the NURIN Alert being proposed by a group of citizens. Please join us by telling all your friends about it. Read more in the latest issue of TELL magazine. If you cannot find it, contact:
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thanks shimi lara..
tulah.. we have to change the malaysian's perception.. they just couldnt accept the fact...its no such thing of the bomoh thingy..its all about the mounting of stress keep on pouring towards us now..be it financial, or the community itself..still, we couldnt avoid it..so, basically we have to know how to handle the stress in a stress free way...right? dont wait until the bomoh finds their way...they are just getting the money from us and worsening the condition.. :-(
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