I am supporting a Khmer who lives in a western country and is suffering from mental health issues.
Is anyone able to give pointers to basic mental disorder information in Khmer language? In particular psychosis and schizophrenia are relevant topics. I need to deliver understandable information to the patient and to the family back in Cambodia.
Also, any advice on strategy: How to tell the bad news to the family living in rural village?
I am trying to avoid two things in particular:
- I do not want the family to start demanding that the patient returns home to Cambodia "to be safe" and "to be taken care of". Knowing the mental health care situation in Cambodia, this would be a very bad idea.
- I do not want the family to spend a lot of money on "magicians" in their attempts of helping.
The patient is very lucky to be in a western country with free high-quality government health care system.
Any help is very much appreciated!
Mental health information in Khmer?
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There were 14 psychiatrists in Cambodia a few years ago.
One runs the Kamikaze Clinic over in those back streets behind Mekong Tower.
There's a unit at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital that is inundated.
Depending on country and language skills of you and affected person you may find all you need where you are.
One runs the Kamikaze Clinic over in those back streets behind Mekong Tower.
There's a unit at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital that is inundated.
Depending on country and language skills of you and affected person you may find all you need where you are.
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I always wondered where did the kamikaze clinic took its name from ?Just Robbed wrote:There were 14 psychiatrists in Cambodia a few years ago.
One runs the Kamikaze Clinic over in those back streets behind Mekong Tower.
There's a unit at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital that is inundated.
Depending on country and language skills of you and affected person you may find all you need where you are.
I had to tell a couple of mothers their sons were sent there and must say that its name sounds a bit peculiar to western hears.
^This indigo is not to be confused with http://www.indigo-international.org/ind ... e-provide/ , which is a total waste of $ , speaking from personal experience, the psychologist that i've met there could learn a thing or two from me in fact...epidemiks wrote:I'd get in touch with indigo http://www.indigo-cambodia.com/ and tpo https://tpocambodia.org/
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The Kamikaze Clinic? You couldn't make this shit up.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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