BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: The case of psychiatric disorders that hit some people of Banjarmasin considered quite disturbing, so it requires serious treatment, Antaranews reported.
Head of Banjarmasin Health Agency drg Diah R Praswati told reporters here on Thursday that many residents of this city affected by psychiatric disorders.
According to her records, there were 439 new cases of residents affected by mental disorder, of whom 193 men and 248 women.
The highest case is skizoprenia and chronic psychotic, neurotic, acutely psychotic, and others.
Psychiatric disorders that hit residents is expected as a result of life increasingly hard competition in recent years, plus the increasingly heavy burden of public economic imbalance between needs and income.
In addition due to the possibility of unhealthy environmental impact, crowded on the streets, slums settlements, or indeed due to ginetic or descent, she added.
Of all the existing psychiatric illness assessed, the weighest is “pasung” or person with mental illnesses is confined or physically restrained. There were four cases found in 2013.