Guys for a career serving the rich and famous and. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us imagine for a moment being locked up in chains in a small room eating and sleeping there unable to leave for years only because you have a Mental Illness it sounds medieval but its happening in modern times in as many as 60 countries across the world according to a report by the end you Human Rights Watch in asia india china and indonesia are just some of the countries where the practice called shackling still exists here rights watch report in indonesia alone for example some 57000 people with Mental Health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives people like this man on the island of bali locked up in a small cell for 2 years for having a Mental Health condition he comes from a poor family and his 94 year old father still works the land. Poverty a lack of access to Mental Health facilities stigma over Mental Health have something to do with it but in the end it increases the suffering of those already dealing with this trauma this is what the 48 year old you saw in the video said to researchers when they met him i feel sad locked in the room i want to look around outside go to work plant rice in the paddy fields please open the door please open the door. Lets get more from professor hans falls he teaches of the university of sydney and is an authority on Mental Health in indonesia i welcome professor polls now when it comes to shackling in indonesia is it by and large the only choice most poor families have as a means of dealing with Mental Health issues or are there other reasons as well. Thats a good question only choice of course a bit of a flexible conception one major problem in the many other countries in Southeast Asia and actually elsewhere in the world is to lack off of a tip its availability of Mental Health services and its often also a problem that that can be quite far away to praying someone to a Community Health center or a Mental Hospital especially in rural and remote areas in Eastern Indonesia it can be quite a distance away some just more than a day travelling and that obviously is a problem many poor people do not know that the link with Mental Illness day only note at the english on who can be quite believed your and sometimes on islands without provocation unexpectedly someone who. Cooked a house on fire killed life stock so in damage its this whole thing a problem especially if someone is attacking neighbors or destroying neighbors property delhi they going to be liable for that that much so in their mind that doing something about it but indonesia did banish acting way back in 10077 and since then it must be said indonesia has introduced a number of programs including a Community Based abroad to tackling the problem do you think that these initiatives are sufficient. They are moving very much in the right direction things are changing in a way to section all Mental Health of the ministry of health picked. Playing as a central problem because then to solve it they need to solve it me to create a much better Mental Health care system but also a much better general Health Care System and one of the things that has been introduced about 3 years ago is the minimal standards for the Community Health centers and this is a major innovation in Innovation Health care that are over 7000 in the whole country to every where the accessible for everybody now in the minimal standards to have to meet and this is assessed on an annual basis is to have to visit at home every individual with severe psychosis or schizophrenia to see how theyre doing that often have health on ts people from the community that trained them in Mental Health the symptoms to recognise them and then to report if they find someone who is shackled or. In the Mental Health care dept has brought down the number off people in check that over the past 678 years with this hof that its down. To about what this a tree is a 1000 people hope is a bit more at this is a very effective measure you know im not sure professor balls what would you say it needs to change in indonesia to prevent shuttling from occurring. A couple of things that happens often at very rural and remote areas is poor people poverty everywhere in this world is bad for Mental Health and bad for Mental Health a Family Member so if you offer to go help secondly the expenditure on Mental Health is quite low or about one percent of the Health Budget and if that spending could be increased. Very vile come through it what is happening and its making quite a difference is a voluntary Association Like the Indonesian Community for the support of people with schizophrenia because definitely not enough doctors it takes quite some time to educate psychiatrists stepped in and providing support to individuals for schizophrenia and care are not that often better in the cities spezza represented at the half are very Important Role at a las thing is what theyre already mentioned is that the Community Health centers are tasked to take care of individuals for severe Mental Illness and that is how relieving them of thank you so much for joining us professor pauls thank you. 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Superfood. Lifestyle. Headsails a soaring as people stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. And turning to mans best friend is one way of coping with chronic loneliness. As i think i made a good choice the dog kept me busy i walked him a lot i think he also loved the attention when i was at home so much of why things. Studies show that physical contact is helping people cope with a crisis. But just how effective is it when your liaison cant talk back. Well its the same case with a 6 stall business is booming plus the technology has advanced you still cant have a conversation with these next robotic sex aides but people do take them on road trips as youll see in a moment a little warning some of the sounds in this report may get your pulse racing. Now that shes got a head say hello to lucy for 5 years shes been learning to speak but his circuits still require a bit of tinkering. And. Because it can connect to the net if you. 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Else bringing in psychiatry as their own john biology of Indias National institute of Mental Health and your sciences 1st of all is a 6 stolen effective treatment for chronic loneliness. You know. Its very individual my beeper some it may not be post some rather it depends on the need for social dutch as you were mentioning the need for physical proximity which has decreased to doing to knock down times saw are its one of the reasons looking at it but then again. It depends it depends in societies cultures about its acceptable to and whether it can be a replacement for the human touch our human proximity what about. Pets have actually been studied of over the last 6 months theres been a lot of studies especially with cats dogs fish. And they have classically been seen to improve the Human Connection its seen to relieve depression anxiety loneliness and specially when youre not able to meet others to help you to stay connected the feeling of human the feeling of being a human is retained so pretty useful measures and have been studied quite much indeed so how else would you advise someone whos feeling lonely and forced into isolation. I think virtue of the d. M. Have really taken up. The speaking virtually here and staying connected to at least 4 by keepers and its a means to keep one thing that we keep telling people who are isolated are in quarantined that that make sure that at least to talk to one person beat a stranger and one persons ability and whatever hobbies you have i think the lockdown and all that situation have given us plenty of opportunities to knowledge of that and thats a real real way to stay positive so text being given a very spirited a British Survey Shows one in 10 people experienced loneliness before the great low down 2 weeks in that rose to one in 4 young people with 3 times more likely to feel those feelings why is that i mean i thought young people spend most of their time in for their mobile phones. Yeah i think as you rightly said corbett has brought to us the real difference between a digital interface connectivity and human connectivity we have been doing some work on the concept of touch hunger like we feel hungry for food to people water we also have that hunger that can become chronic and especially in this unprecedented situation when we are not able to physically need people no matter how much virtual it is and that affects specially people who are in you know that a dollar since we were young because human touch social touch affectionate touch are very important in stages of Human Development and mostly that will be affecting the young and also the older people those who are of up at the pipe its the i like the core and the season starts i just want to point out a point you used in one of your papers you you said all of humanitys problems stem from our inability to sit in a room alone whats wrong with us. Yeah i think thats something which really made me reflect when i wrote the code that youre mentioning from my paper on social that lesion and the internet. I also mentioned that we need to confront the loneliness into saudi chewed basis you know the reliance a quite subtle so i believe that this break some part of this break was needed and its a critical balance between knowing how to ski a spend time with oneself versus socializing and if either of it is not enough then thats the problem so one thing that the lockdown at the core of crisis has also helped us and is trying and understanding how can we spend time with ourselves you know having a saudi chuka having enjoying our hobbies reflecting on us and thats one b. Which really we can use to deal with this chronic loneliness not only in the pandemic but even after that really briefly after the pandemic what happens then when people ditched their dog or that sexto womans Mental Health speech such an issue. Of course i think this is just the tip of the iceberg and the beginning were looking at next 6 months to one year Mental Health issues are going to race. I as a Mental Health professional my person take will be that people will try to at least you know they will learn to spend more time with themselves virtually medium could be a medium of communication and of course things like beth you know as youre mentioning exalts or even robotics theyre even butchers about it Artificial Intelligence these will come up gradually in mitigating the lonely they will have to leave it i dont think. Thank you very much for being on the show. Thank you. Now if youve got any questions on the c