fasting for mental health
From scientific studies have been carried out, got an interesting fact for us to dive. Namely, that fasting may give mental health. This is like what is written by Alan Cott in his book Fasting as a Way of Life and Fasting The Ultimate Diet. In it, mentioned that a severe mental disorder can be reduced by fasting. As for other mental disorders such as insomnia, low self-esteem and excessive anxiety can be reduced with fasting therapy. This is demonstrated in research Alan Cott at Grace Hospital Square, New York.
Another study conducted by Dr. Nicolayev, professor at the Moscow Psychiatric Institute. By comparing the two groups of patients with psychiatric disorders, with one group received medical therapy, while another group gets done fasting therapy respectively for thirty days. From the experiments it was found that patients who can not be cured by medical therapy, can be healed with fasting therapy. In addition, these people do not have a relapse during the six years later.
With these facts should be a gap for us to overcome mental health problems, especially in Indonesia, which kinisudah very worrying. Given the statistical data, very large percentage of Indonesian citizens especially those experiencing mental health disorders. In fact, from the data of Household Health Survey 1995, Indonesia’s estimated 264 of 1000 household members suffer from mental health disorders. Jiw health disorders are usually in the form of anxiety, depression, stress, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency to schizophrenia.
Causes of mental health disorders are particularly numerous. However, according to Prof.. Dr. dr. H. Aris Sudijanto, Sp. Kj, professor of psychiatry FK UNS, there are three groups, the cause of this mental health disorder. First gangguang physical, biological or organic. The causes of berasaal of heredity, abnormalities in the brain, infectious diseases, drug addiction and alcohol. Both are mental disorders, emotional or psychological. The reason is partly because of foster care, patoogis relationships among family members due to frustration, conflict, and pressure because of the crisis, the Third is the social or environmental disruption. The causes can be a psychological stressor (problems in a marriage, interpersonal relationships, problems at work, financial, legal, etc.).
Then how mentally healthy person? Mentally healthy people, according to Prof.. Dr. dr. H. Aris Sudijanto, Sp. Kj, are characterized by harmony between thoughts, feelings, behaviors, can be independent, responsible, mature attitude, and can feel the happiness in most of his life. If one of the main features of the disturbed, meaning that individual mental health can be said to have been disturbed.
Mental health conditions can be achieved only with simultaneous changes in various development fields all around us. Could be industrial, educational, political organizations, spiritual, philosophical orientation, character structure, human behavior, a community cultural activities, etc.. Then, what kind of society in line with the goal of mental health (mental) it.
As a solution, there are at least four characteristics of structures forming a healthy community.
First, a healthy society is a society in which no one human being manipulated by others, but always (no exception) is the objective itself. Therefore, should no one who manipulated / manipulate yourself.
Second, a healthy society that encourages productive activities of each of its citizens in its work to stimulate the development of reason and further, he was able to make a man to express his inner needs of the arts and the collective normative behavior.
Third, a healthy society is a society with nature greedy, exploitative, excessive ownership, narcissism, do not get the opportunity to be exploited in material profit indefinitely or for a person solely prestige. That is where the action according to personal beliefs into the nature and importance; where opportunism and lack of establishment is considered asocial. In another sense, where the inseparable relationships (read: being a personal problem, too) from the relationship with yourself.
Fourth, a healthy society is a condition of society which enables people to act in the dimensions that can be directed and observed. Although he became an active participant and take responsibility in public life, other than as a master of his own life.
Finally, to realize the health condition of the human psyche like that, then the key is nothing but each of us must do to improve the quality of life that can ensure the healthy condition of the actual creation, namely through fasting therapy.
