[Music]
thank you for having me it’s hard to
follow an accolade bocklage or because
every time I’ve achieved a zet state of
giving you talk my heart rate goes up
with the drums and so right now it’s
like it’s hitting with the treatment of
drops okay so excuse me if I just take a
moment to relax so most people know me
and say clinical psychologist a
researcher a lecturer I know myself
that’s really cool it’s funny person you
may not but few people know my personal
struggle with depression
it’s actually really hard to convey what
it felt like the feelings of sadness the
thoughts of condemnation the sense of
urgency to end it all as soon as
possible
depression one of the most common mental
illnesses I’m trained to diagnose at the
low move lots of pleasure insomnia
fatigue low self-worth and even the
suicidal ideation but it’s hard to
recognize the signs when you find
yourself and its grip it happens so
slowly and sedulously I activated it to
everything but depression the stress
workload you know transition from Canada
to Malaysia my family would ask me are
you okay I said of course I’m okay why
wouldn’t I be life is good I’ve got a
job I got friends and show that I’m
stressed
but everyone is also stressed right so
there was nothing wrong but something
wasn’t right I wasn’t happy but I should
be happy right made me
I was just ungrateful maybe I was
expecting too much I started feeling bad
for feeling bad eventually it dawned
upon me that made me under pressed so I
took several self-report measure I added
a report of my symptoms and downplayed
everything but I had to face the fact
that I was it took me six months to
recover from my depression and in
several years to work through the
consequences of it undiscovered the
recovery it’s a lonely road is this
doing more have happened but rejoicing
that the ghosts have fallen silent is
premature because actually walked back
to the life you once had you see the
destructive effects of the illness even
broken relationships the ill health
contrary to my profession as a clinical
psychologist my belief in the importance
of mental well-being and treatment I did
not seek professional help
to be honest I was afraid afraid of it
being official afraid of what people
would say afraid of with how society
would treat me I decided that today I
don’t want to be afraid anymore so will
not be a favorable one because
depression is only part of a story it
does not define me it is also part of
the untold story of millions of
Malaysians in 2015 the national health
and mobility serving found that 30
percent of Malaysia’s have a mental
health condition at any one point in
time that’s 90 million or 1 in 3
Malaysians have poor mental well-being
at this very moment the fifth edition of
the diagnostic Statistical mental which
you see clinical Manual of Mental
Disorders defines mental
as a behavioral or psychological
syndrome of pattern that occurs in an
individual that reflects an underlying
psychobiological dysfunction the
consequences of which are clinically
significant distress for example painful
symptom or disability that is impairment
in one or more important areas of
functioning mental illness in short is a
group of behavioral or psychological
science that indicate you as something
it’s not quite right psychologically and
biologically the consequences of which
is we cannot thrive or cheat well-being
and the most common mental illness is
depression which we will be the primary
focus of my talk today although much of
what I say can be applied to many of the
other mental illnesses so depression a
mental illness is characterized by low
mood and/or loss of pleasure or interest
most of the day nearly every day for two
weeks or more it interferes
significantly when you’re functioning in
life one in ten Malaysians are depressed
that’s 3 million on average it takes
someone with depression for years to
seek help if they ever do assuming
office available to them unfortunately
for many Malaysians
there is no help available to them we
have 300 psychiatrists in Malaysia to
meet the minimal World Health
Organization recommendations for a
population of this size we would need
3,000 psychiatrist we have even fewer
clinical psychologists approximately
I am a rare breed
welcome no I’m just kidding we have
about a hundred fifty clinical
psychologists three hundred psychiatrist
three million Asians with depression
that works out to be one psychiatrist
pratense
thousand Malaysians with depression and
one clinical psychologist for 20,000
Malaysians with depression maybe be
urging me to increase our resources is
not apparent until we consider the cost
of the elders so a cost of any illness
can be computed in terms of years the
number of years healthy life years we
lose to an illness the number of years
he spent living with a disability the
number of years lost due to a shortened
lifespan the Ministry of Health
estimates that we lose more than 100,000
healthy life years every year to
depression let’s think about it this way
imagine a typical day you get up go to
work put in your 95 have dinner with a
loved one that’s time spent in your job
and time spent with the people you care
about
now imagine a day with depression you
struggle to get out of bed maybe you
make it to work at any difficulty
concentrating you’re tired you can’t
wait till it’s 5:00 p.m. you touch back
home go right back into that you isolate
yourself from important relationships in
life cause it’s time lost to an illness
to do the financial costs to it
depression cost milena 1.9 billion
ringgit every year and much of that does
not actually go towards treatment but
it’s encourage you to loss of an
employment
lots of productivity even loss of life
the cause of depression are many and
complex biological and psychological
and there is no one single cause of
oppression but let me just highlight
five common ones the first negative life
stress for example losing a job or
losing an important relationship second
negative thinking styles such as
believing that you are the cause of all
bad things that have happened to you and
nothing will ever change the third euro
chemical imbalance such as serotonin and
the fourth neural net we go
abnormalities in key structures of the
brain and finally genetics the
heritability of depression is
approximately 37% now the good news the
good news is that we have many effective
ways to help reduce the risk of
depression and other illnesses we are
also effective treatments that can help
improve symptoms and help people live
more meaningful and happier lives but
here’s a first key problem we need more
than two health resources in Malaysia we
need more mental health professionals in
Malaysia we need more accessible
effective sorry from is life accessible
effective and affordable intervention
and prevention programs in Malaysia now
even if we do increase the resources who
you go who would go that’s the second
problem
mental illness is heavily stigmatized
and stigma stops people from seeking
help only about 50% of people with
depression ever see call and even though
it takes them an average of four years
to do so in 1999 the first surgeon
general’s report on mental health was
released the Surgeon General identify
stigma as being one of the major
barriers that stop people from seeking
home stigma is a Greek word
reverser can it’s a to mark that was
burned into the skins as criminals
slaves traders to identify them as
blemished a warning commuted individuals
today instead of a physical mark we grab
people with mental illnesses as weak
dangerous the lack of understanding of
what mental illness is and what causes
it contributes is fear and so here is
how signal works we perpetuate negative
stereotypes of mental illness we treat
people with mental illnesses accordingly
as if they are weak dangerous or crazy
consequently over time they begin to
accept these labels as true and see
themselves as such unfortunately many of
these navels are lifelong and continue
even after the person has recovered
is it anyone monitor but my wife will
don’t want to seek help because
admitting to having an illness would be
like admitting to being all of those
negative associations changing this
culture of change starts with changing
the way you and I see mental health we
need to invest in mental health the same
way we invest in physical health we need
to stop seeing mental illness as a
weakness of failure we need to extend
the same rights and considerations to
people with mental illnesses as we do
people with physical illnesses we need
to come together to build a mentally
healthy society one characterized by
compassion acceptance and openness the
research has shown that the most
effective ways to reduce the stigma on
mental illness
to understand what mental illnesses and
to know someone with an if experience so
let me take my stand and this fight
against the stigmatization of mental
illness so Who am I
my name is cha sickening and yes I’ve
had depression maybe I will be depressed
again the depression is only part of my
story
it does not define me I’m a clinical
psychologist a lecturer and researcher
I’m a Christian I’m the sister a
daughter or friend I love baking to my
shame I play the violin very badly I’m
valuing kindness openness and courage so
to the 30% of the majors currently
living with a mental health condition
don’t lose hope remember who you are at
the very core of your being and please
do get the help that you need and
deserve and to the 70% of Malaysians
with a loved one living with a mental
health condition continue to love and
support them and remember who they are
at the very core to being beyond their
mental illness let us treat one another
with kindness and dignity without fear
or discrimination for our mental health
matters thank you
you
thank you for having me it’s hard to
follow an accolade bocklage or because
every time I’ve achieved a zet state of
giving you talk my heart rate goes up
with the drums and so right now it’s
like it’s hitting with the treatment of
drops okay so excuse me if I just take a
moment to relax so most people know me
and say clinical psychologist a
researcher a lecturer I know myself
that’s really cool it’s funny person you
may not but few people know my personal
struggle with depression
it’s actually really hard to convey what
it felt like the feelings of sadness the
thoughts of condemnation the sense of
urgency to end it all as soon as
possible
depression one of the most common mental
illnesses I’m trained to diagnose at the
low move lots of pleasure insomnia
fatigue low self-worth and even the
suicidal ideation but it’s hard to
recognize the signs when you find
yourself and its grip it happens so
slowly and sedulously I activated it to
everything but depression the stress
workload you know transition from Canada
to Malaysia my family would ask me are
you okay I said of course I’m okay why
wouldn’t I be life is good I’ve got a
job I got friends and show that I’m
stressed
but everyone is also stressed right so
there was nothing wrong but something
wasn’t right I wasn’t happy but I should
be happy right made me
I was just ungrateful maybe I was
expecting too much I started feeling bad
for feeling bad eventually it dawned
upon me that made me under pressed so I
took several self-report measure I added
a report of my symptoms and downplayed
everything but I had to face the fact
that I was it took me six months to
recover from my depression and in
several years to work through the
consequences of it undiscovered the
recovery it’s a lonely road is this
doing more have happened but rejoicing
that the ghosts have fallen silent is
premature because actually walked back
to the life you once had you see the
destructive effects of the illness even
broken relationships the ill health
contrary to my profession as a clinical
psychologist my belief in the importance
of mental well-being and treatment I did
not seek professional help
to be honest I was afraid afraid of it
being official afraid of what people
would say afraid of with how society
would treat me I decided that today I
don’t want to be afraid anymore so will
not be a favorable one because
depression is only part of a story it
does not define me it is also part of
the untold story of millions of
Malaysians in 2015 the national health
and mobility serving found that 30
percent of Malaysia’s have a mental
health condition at any one point in
time that’s 90 million or 1 in 3
Malaysians have poor mental well-being
at this very moment the fifth edition of
the diagnostic Statistical mental which
you see clinical Manual of Mental
Disorders defines mental
as a behavioral or psychological
syndrome of pattern that occurs in an
individual that reflects an underlying
psychobiological dysfunction the
consequences of which are clinically
significant distress for example painful
symptom or disability that is impairment
in one or more important areas of
functioning mental illness in short is a
group of behavioral or psychological
science that indicate you as something
it’s not quite right psychologically and
biologically the consequences of which
is we cannot thrive or cheat well-being
and the most common mental illness is
depression which we will be the primary
focus of my talk today although much of
what I say can be applied to many of the
other mental illnesses so depression a
mental illness is characterized by low
mood and/or loss of pleasure or interest
most of the day nearly every day for two
weeks or more it interferes
significantly when you’re functioning in
life one in ten Malaysians are depressed
that’s 3 million on average it takes
someone with depression for years to
seek help if they ever do assuming
office available to them unfortunately
for many Malaysians
there is no help available to them we
have 300 psychiatrists in Malaysia to
meet the minimal World Health
Organization recommendations for a
population of this size we would need
3,000 psychiatrist we have even fewer
clinical psychologists approximately
I am a rare breed
welcome no I’m just kidding we have
about a hundred fifty clinical
psychologists three hundred psychiatrist
three million Asians with depression
that works out to be one psychiatrist
pratense
thousand Malaysians with depression and
one clinical psychologist for 20,000
Malaysians with depression maybe be
urging me to increase our resources is
not apparent until we consider the cost
of the elders so a cost of any illness
can be computed in terms of years the
number of years healthy life years we
lose to an illness the number of years
he spent living with a disability the
number of years lost due to a shortened
lifespan the Ministry of Health
estimates that we lose more than 100,000
healthy life years every year to
depression let’s think about it this way
imagine a typical day you get up go to
work put in your 95 have dinner with a
loved one that’s time spent in your job
and time spent with the people you care
about
now imagine a day with depression you
struggle to get out of bed maybe you
make it to work at any difficulty
concentrating you’re tired you can’t
wait till it’s 5:00 p.m. you touch back
home go right back into that you isolate
yourself from important relationships in
life cause it’s time lost to an illness
to do the financial costs to it
depression cost milena 1.9 billion
ringgit every year and much of that does
not actually go towards treatment but
it’s encourage you to loss of an
employment
lots of productivity even loss of life
the cause of depression are many and
complex biological and psychological
and there is no one single cause of
oppression but let me just highlight
five common ones the first negative life
stress for example losing a job or
losing an important relationship second
negative thinking styles such as
believing that you are the cause of all
bad things that have happened to you and
nothing will ever change the third euro
chemical imbalance such as serotonin and
the fourth neural net we go
abnormalities in key structures of the
brain and finally genetics the
heritability of depression is
approximately 37% now the good news the
good news is that we have many effective
ways to help reduce the risk of
depression and other illnesses we are
also effective treatments that can help
improve symptoms and help people live
more meaningful and happier lives but
here’s a first key problem we need more
than two health resources in Malaysia we
need more mental health professionals in
Malaysia we need more accessible
effective sorry from is life accessible
effective and affordable intervention
and prevention programs in Malaysia now
even if we do increase the resources who
you go who would go that’s the second
problem
mental illness is heavily stigmatized
and stigma stops people from seeking
help only about 50% of people with
depression ever see call and even though
it takes them an average of four years
to do so in 1999 the first surgeon
general’s report on mental health was
released the Surgeon General identify
stigma as being one of the major
barriers that stop people from seeking
home stigma is a Greek word
reverser can it’s a to mark that was
burned into the skins as criminals
slaves traders to identify them as
blemished a warning commuted individuals
today instead of a physical mark we grab
people with mental illnesses as weak
dangerous the lack of understanding of
what mental illness is and what causes
it contributes is fear and so here is
how signal works we perpetuate negative
stereotypes of mental illness we treat
people with mental illnesses accordingly
as if they are weak dangerous or crazy
consequently over time they begin to
accept these labels as true and see
themselves as such unfortunately many of
these navels are lifelong and continue
even after the person has recovered
is it anyone monitor but my wife will
don’t want to seek help because
admitting to having an illness would be
like admitting to being all of those
negative associations changing this
culture of change starts with changing
the way you and I see mental health we
need to invest in mental health the same
way we invest in physical health we need
to stop seeing mental illness as a
weakness of failure we need to extend
the same rights and considerations to
people with mental illnesses as we do
people with physical illnesses we need
to come together to build a mentally
healthy society one characterized by
compassion acceptance and openness the
research has shown that the most
effective ways to reduce the stigma on
mental illness
to understand what mental illnesses and
to know someone with an if experience so
let me take my stand and this fight
against the stigmatization of mental
illness so Who am I
my name is cha sickening and yes I’ve
had depression maybe I will be depressed
again the depression is only part of my
story
it does not define me I’m a clinical
psychologist a lecturer and researcher
I’m a Christian I’m the sister a
daughter or friend I love baking to my
shame I play the violin very badly I’m
valuing kindness openness and courage so
to the 30% of the majors currently
living with a mental health condition
don’t lose hope remember who you are at
the very core of your being and please
do get the help that you need and
deserve and to the 70% of Malaysians
with a loved one living with a mental
health condition continue to love and
support them and remember who they are
at the very core to being beyond their
mental illness let us treat one another
with kindness and dignity without fear
or discrimination for our mental health
matters thank you
you
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