Mental Health Issue a Feminist Issue Too
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Mental illness, the issue we never talk about
Until this article, I had never revealed my anxiety problem to my friends because I did not want it to define me, and to be a barrier to my performance in my professional life. Most importantly I didn’t want the “label” often slapped on people with mental health issues: that we’re being overly dramatic or ungrateful. Our depression is seen as our way of seeing the world as if it revolves around us. And I didn’t want people to know that cognitive behavioral therapy and drugs/medicine actually help me.
Taboo is the prime reason we hide our mental illness. Families with members suffering from mental issues fear the stigma attached to the illness, and this often has devastating consequences.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), more than 57,000 people in Indonesia “with real or perceived psychosocial disabilities” have been shackled or locked up in confined spaces at least once in their lives. Around 18,800 people are kept in shackles (called pasung in Indonesia).
Meanwhile, a 2013 Research on Health by the Ministry of Healthy showed that about 14 million people or 6 percent of the population have a prevalence for mental and emotional illness and have had symptoms of depression and anxiety since the age of 15. Those suffering from schizophrenia are numbering about 400,000, the data says.
#santé_mentale #Indonésie
Envie de commenter : la santé mentale est un sujet pour les pays du #Sud_global aussi, pas que les pays riches.