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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Mental illnes is in Boom In Cambodia

By: HIM Sokunthea

The amount of mental illness patients is rapidly increasing from 60 percents to 90 percents recently due to economical crisis, childhood experience, social instability and many other problems occurred in Cambodia society, the deputy director of mental illness at Soviet Hospital said.



Dr. Yim Sobotra, the mental illness expert, said that he is concerned about the increase, since the old and new patients are rising day by day.

“I receive 70 to 80 people daily in Soviet Hopital”, he continues

There are many patients go to see the doctors and take the medicine daily approximately a hundred people per day. Those people go there to cure illness differently regarding their daily situation.

Sothea’s parents, whose son got a mental problem, said that his son have had mental problem for two years since he carelessly used pesticide in rice file.

“I can’t sleep at night because I need to keep an eye on him; otherwise, he goes out side shouting and cursing others”.

“First, he felt headache and later he cried, shouted and cursed other people unconsciously”, he said

“The pesticide or insecticides can bring mental problem severely and instantly if the farmer excessive use pesticide in careless way”, Dr. Yim Sobotra said.

In Soviet hospital, the patients have mental illness because of economic crisis, domestic violent, social instability, drug abuse, broken heart and the pressure from others people.

According to Dr. Yim Sobotra claimed that the primary reason that leads to the increase is because of the economical crisis. When individual thinks, worry and concern a lot, it makes them have insomnia and later lead to depression or stress.

He added that the best solution for those patients is that they need to see the doctors in order that the doctors can give good consultation and medicine for them.

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