CHALLENGES AND FIGHTING SOCIAL STIGMA IN PATIENT WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA IN INDONESIA

Abstract

Social stigma becomes a crucial issue of mental health of the community, more than 70% of patients with mental disorders do not receive optimal care in the community mental health service system causes include: people do not like the characteristics of mental disorders ranging from mild to severe, slow in access treatment in mental disorders where people assume people with mild mental disorders can still adapt well, people also feel hopelessness in patients who have been associated in a psychiatric hospital and have been convicted of serious mental disorders can not re-adapt to society (Henderson, Evans-Lacko, & Thornicroft, 2013), in indonesia social stigma becomes factors that affected mental health called “Pasung”, pasung known as physical renstrain patient with mental disorder in community field in indonesia.