By Mr. Seang Leap | Project Coordinator
A 32-year-old woman was chained and left under an unoccupied old house, without wall and lying on a piece of board with old clothes, and ignoring the presence of the therapists. She speaks alone, and she has less insight.
She has been suffering from mental illness since 2013 and at that time she was referred to Kampong Cham Provincial Hospital with the support for medical and travel expenses by a humanitarian NGO. After recovering for several months, she relapsed and walked out and was sexually abused several times. For her safety and prevention from abuse, her father decided to chain her because she went out and was raped and she had four children by abusers. The first, second and third children are being adopted. Currently, her father, a widower, is looking after her and her fourth child, who was just 9 months old.
The district team in charge of women's and children's affairs asked TPO to provide treatment for her mental illness. When the treatment team arrived and then made assessment for making diagnosis and prescribing medicine. The treatment team also did psycho-education on psychosis, causes and effective treatment to villagers and relatives, and help them change their negative attitudes toward patient and provide support to patient and her family.
Her neighbors and relatives gave her food and her father looked after her. She also received support from partner organizations and district-level women's affairs officials such as money, materials and food, as well as receiving fund from the government for the poor during Covid-19 epidemic.
After receiving treatment from TPO for 10 months, the patient recovered and she was communicable. She gained more insight and knew her baby and expressed love for him. She was unchained by her family. The living conditions of her family are better because the father can go out to work to earn extra income as well to grow crops and to raise animals, which is also supported by the partner organization.
Patients can take care of herself and can take care of her baby, and could do housework such as: bathing, washing clothes, washing dishes, and cooking. Her family was happy and excited to see her better condition and able to take care of herself and raise chickens, ducks, grow vegetables, take care of her baby and want to do small business for a living.
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