Mental Health Issues In Malaysia
Malaysia s ministry of health kkm recently has been reported that one in three of the country s adults are at risk of developing a mental health problem for the last 5 years health 2011.
Mental health issues in malaysia. In fact the international journal of academic research in business and social sciences reported in an article highlighting the issues and challenges of mental health in malaysia wrote that that more than 50 of malaysians believe that when it comes to mental illness the sufferer is to blame for their condition while about 80 believe that there s no such thing as mental health problems. Relate mental health malaysia relate founder dr chua sook ning said mental disorders considered an invisible illness had been on the rise with 10 5 of the population suffering from it in. Hundreds of thousands of men women and children with mental health conditions are living chained up in roughly 60 countries human rights watch said on tuesday.
Mental illness is expected to be the second highest form of health problem after heart disease by 2020 lee lai 2017. Kuala lumpur april 30 malaysian think tank the centre today revealed that a study on mental health well being showed that almost half of its respondents reported experiencing negative mental well being during the movement control order mco with different levels of severity. One of the biggest and unfortunately invisible barriers that affects the development of mental health in malaysia is the lack of education on it which leads to stigma against it.
A psychiatrist and senior lecturer at universiti putra malaysia dr michael ang jin kiat said the disease could take many forms and the most severe and common mental illness include schizophrenia. 2018 with the estimated costs exceeding 80 million usd manaf et al. Stigma is the negative assumptions or beliefs held against people with mental illnesses which reduces them to a stereotyped group.
It also protects the said individual from abuse or mistreatment. Today approximately 30 of people in malaysia aged 16 years or older have mental health problems hassan et al.
