By Khan Sokummno | Reporter-VOA Khmer
Dear TPO's Operation Unchain Project supporters,
I am pleased to shared with you a new report on "Operation Unchain: Stopping Cambodia’s Silent Suffering" by VOA: which mentioned detailed situaion of a mantally ill patient in Prey Veng province who got mental health care service from TPO's therapist team as below:
For almost 10 years, former casino croupier Ly* has been locked up by his own family.
Ly’s life was turned upside down when, amid increasingly erratic behavior, residents of his village in Prey Veng province found him hanging from a palm tree by his legs. With little understanding of the mental health issues that had driven the once “normal” man to do such a thing, they and his relatives believed that restraining him was the best way of ensuring his safety.
Now 38, Ly could soon be free.
“Do you want to get out?” Dr. Ang Sody, clinic manager and senior psychiatrist at the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), asked Ly on a recent visit to his home.
“It is up to you, doctor,” Ly replied, before whispering that he had found a “mythical path to Phnom Penh.”
Sody has been attempting to convince Ly’s family to free him, and is hopeful that this may happen within the year.
For detail story, please find in attached link:
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/operation-unchain-stopping-cambodia-silent-suffering/3769149.html
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