oo...i also planned to take counseling as extra knowledge le.. clinical psychology d main 1.. why not suitable for u? u dun like or?

Certain approaches are different if comparing between counseling and clinical, they deal with mental health issues differently and have different school of thoughts. But you might as well start a different thread for that

I wouldnt spend, friends & family support is most important for me.

This post has been edited by temmyoi: Aug 17 2013, 09:14 PM

Medication is the only option when the patient is suffering from clear or
even borderline psychotic disorders caused at least in part by biochemical
imbalances in the brain.

One such person is definitely my younger brother whom I am unfortunate
enough to live with. I am virtually certain that he suffers from multiple personality
disorders - essentially overlapping schizoid, paranoid and narcissistic personality disorder.

If I had my way, I would start him immediately on a low dose of one of the
atypical antipsychotics -

Risperidone
Quetiapine
Aripiprazole
Amisulpiride


Or at least one of these older phenothiazines -

CPZ
Thioridazine
Haloperidol
Flupenthixol


This guy is actually a Principal Engineer at Western Digital, earning
close to $ 20,000 a month.

Counselling alone would be a waste of time.






This post has been edited by Tham: Aug 19 2013, 01:13 AM

You could try HUKM. I don't think there is any particularly long waiting time.
Just visit one of the $1 government clinics around town, or any private clinic,
and ask the GP if he can refer you to the psychiatric department there.

This woman in my office has an elder brother who has been referred there
for severe depression, and hospitalized several times in fact. I didn't hear
her saying anything about a long waiting period.

The last I heard, he was on a heavy regimen of at least three drugs - an SSRI
(I think citalopram or escitalopram), a tetracyclic (mirtazapine) and a benzodiazepine.
And he was getting them free, or at very low cost. SSRIs cost a bomb.

Otherwise, if his anxiety is mild to moderate, any GP could prescribe basic drugs
like Ativan, Tranxene, Xanax or low dose of flupenthixol for a start.


There are also quite a few supplements you could try, particularly 5-HTP an
L-theanine, the green tea amino acid.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=61758700


Though there may still be one or two doctors there, the Befrienders are
usually manned by part-time office workers and students who have little
or no training in psychology.



You could try also contacting the Malaysian Mental Health and Psychiatric associations.


http://www.psychiatry-malaysia.org/

www.mentalhealth.org.my

Yes, definitely if the causes are physiological in nature, medications are definitely required. But there are also school of thoughts that do not believe in medications at all They rely mostly on their techniques and not on drugs I believe.

thanks.

but i think my brother should talk to a counsellor or psychologist first. i doubt i want him to start with medication right away.

thanks. will look into this.

Just found this link to the Malaysian Mental Health Association with a list of useful contacts

http://www.mentalhealth.org.my/resources/d...lling-services/

lol often heard this, but who cares lol not like you're going to spread it to the world..

It's all in people's heads, overly self-conscious perhaps

Legitimate mental health professionals usually undergo training on professional ethics that teaches the importance of maintaining therapist/client confidentiality and when under what circumstances that these confidentiality be broken (e.g.: clients exhibit suicidal / homicidal tendencies etc)

Here's another useful link for psychiatric help

http://www.mentalhealth.org.my/resources/d...es-in-malaysia/

usually, the family members of the mental patient would seek help for a specific mental patients, although it all differs



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how do i find a place to seek for help? i also don't know how the procedure works?

This post has been edited by amfiq1992: Nov 15 2017, 12:36 AM

First, you can check and see if you have the symptoms. You can utilize some online tools for self-diagnosis. An example of such tool for depression is https://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/depression.aspx

If you think you're having mental health issues, you can probably just go to any private hospital's psychiatric unit and make an appointment with any of the psychiatrists or psychologists. Optionally if you want a cheaper approach, head to a government hospital's psychiatric unit but I'm not sure if you need a referral letter from a clinic or general practitioner for this.

If you need more information, the people at Befrienders would be more than happy to help if you give them a call or email them www.befrienders.org.my

If u suspect got mental illness,

1)go klinik kesihatan diagnose ur problem 1st. Then get referral letter to hospital or put u a fix date if they have psychiatrist there.

2)if u go um, go klinik ruka. Let them diagnose then they will tell u what to do further.

3) u call the private one to make appointments.

First, I don't think someone have to have "mental illness" to actually see a mental health care expert. The thing is everyone can be functional but still have some kind of issues preventing one from... being his/her best.

I am one of them. I can function perfectly in work, in life, in love. But deep inside, I'm... sad. I can't tell why I'm sad and anxious, but that's it. One problem with KL is the price for mental healthcare is expensive, and company medical cards don't usually cover them. I fully understand that like other healthcare, it come with cost for expertise, but sadly it's not available to general public...

Anyway I am finding counsellor that's affordable to move forward, for me and my family. I'm functional depressed but my family & gf seems to be the one suffering the most...

Also I don't know if government clinic would bother - It's not like I'm not functional... lol.

This post has been edited by chrisderick88: Nov 26 2017, 06:01 PM