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Indonesia: chaining up the mentally ill

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In Indonesia, nearly 750,000 people suffering from psychiatric problems receive no medical treatment. At the People and Society Foundation, they are chained up for an indeterminate length of time and given lessons on hygiene. For many it's a shocking way to treat mental disorders, but for their families, it's the only way they can afford to help them.

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psychiatric problems

by Anonyme - 18/07/2011 - 11:45

There's no such thing as a psychiatric problem - people have emotional/psychological problems, but psychiatry is a scam; it doesn't help a person deal with things in their lives - they just give you dope. And it is dope -

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