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ONE-FOURTH OF INDONESIANS SUFFERING FROM NEUROTIC DISORDERS : MINISTER
Bogor, Oct 10 (ANTARA) - Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said about 25 percent of Indonesia's population were suffering from neurotic disorders such as mental depression and psychosomatic ailments but they were not aware of it.
"This means one in every four Indonesians is suffering from a neurotic disorder. It's a fantastic figure but people do not realize it," the minister said in a prepared speech at a function to mark World Mental Health Day in Bogor's City Hall on Monday.
In her address read by the Health Ministry's director general of medical services, Farid W Husain, Supari said the figures she had mentioned meant that if Jakarta had a population of about 10 million people, then two million of them had neurotic disorders.
Many Indonesians do not realize they might belong to the group of mentally ill people, she said.
"A mental health problem is not always extreme like the mental disorders afflicting psychopaths or people who roam the streets aimlessly. The known cases of schizophrenia which are like the tip of an iceberg are also a form of mental illness," she said.
In Indonesia, one in every one thousand people is believed to suffer from schizophrenia while another mental disorder afflicting a "fantastic" number of unaware people was neurosis.
She said mental health problems had a profound effect on the productivity and quality of individuals as well as of the comunity , They could not be handled by the government alone and needed a multi-sectoral approach involving the community.
The minister said human resources development did not only mean improving the balance of nutrient intake but also realizing that there were three inseparable aspects to human beings.
The three were the physical (biological organic) , the mental-emotional or psychological (psycho-educational) and socio-cultural or environmental (socio-cultural) aspects.
"These three aspects must be developed in a balanced and integrated way. If one of these aspects is neglected, the concept of holistic human resources develpment will only remain a vain hope," the mnister said.
She said on the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2008, she would like to call on all parties in the country to pay attention to and implement the three messages on Indonesia's mental health.
The first message was that mental sanity is an integral part of health. There is no health without mental sanity.
Secondly, the status of people's mental sanity ro great extent determines the quality of their lives so that it is time to pay special attention to mental health. People's bad state of health will lower Indonesia's human development index.
Thirdly, mental health must be intengrated into all aspects of health, public policies, health system planning and basic health and referral services.
According to the minister, a number of regions in the country were already applying the three messages in the developmet of their respective health sectorrs. They were the Sindangbarang village administration in Bogor, West Jakarta, and eight districts and municipalities in Aceh Naggroe Darussalam (NAD) province.
"This means one in every four Indonesians is suffering from a neurotic disorder. It's a fantastic figure but people do not realize it," the minister said in a prepared speech at a function to mark World Mental Health Day in Bogor's City Hall on Monday.
In her address read by the Health Ministry's director general of medical services, Farid W Husain, Supari said the figures she had mentioned meant that if Jakarta had a population of about 10 million people, then two million of them had neurotic disorders.
Many Indonesians do not realize they might belong to the group of mentally ill people, she said.
"A mental health problem is not always extreme like the mental disorders afflicting psychopaths or people who roam the streets aimlessly. The known cases of schizophrenia which are like the tip of an iceberg are also a form of mental illness," she said.
In Indonesia, one in every one thousand people is believed to suffer from schizophrenia while another mental disorder afflicting a "fantastic" number of unaware people was neurosis.
She said mental health problems had a profound effect on the productivity and quality of individuals as well as of the comunity , They could not be handled by the government alone and needed a multi-sectoral approach involving the community.
The minister said human resources development did not only mean improving the balance of nutrient intake but also realizing that there were three inseparable aspects to human beings.
The three were the physical (biological organic) , the mental-emotional or psychological (psycho-educational) and socio-cultural or environmental (socio-cultural) aspects.
"These three aspects must be developed in a balanced and integrated way. If one of these aspects is neglected, the concept of holistic human resources develpment will only remain a vain hope," the mnister said.
She said on the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2008, she would like to call on all parties in the country to pay attention to and implement the three messages on Indonesia's mental health.
The first message was that mental sanity is an integral part of health. There is no health without mental sanity.
Secondly, the status of people's mental sanity ro great extent determines the quality of their lives so that it is time to pay special attention to mental health. People's bad state of health will lower Indonesia's human development index.
Thirdly, mental health must be intengrated into all aspects of health, public policies, health system planning and basic health and referral services.
According to the minister, a number of regions in the country were already applying the three messages in the developmet of their respective health sectorrs. They were the Sindangbarang village administration in Bogor, West Jakarta, and eight districts and municipalities in Aceh Naggroe Darussalam (NAD) province.
