SITUBONDO, punishment stocks still be experienced by the poor who suffer from mental disorders like depression and stress. Stocks are also often used as a last resort for poor people unable to handle their relatives who are mentally handicapped.
It was also experienced by two male cousins named Munir (40) and Samsudin (37), village residents Pokaan, District Kapongan, Situbondo, East Java. The family was forced to memasung them as they often do things that upset local residents suffered from mental disorders.
On two strong, both are forced to put in the stocks because the family was no longer able to pay for treatment. Munir and Samsuddin now powerless to live the rest of his life in pasungan since suffered depression a few years ago.
If recurrent, they often run amok. They put in the stocks in different places. Samsudin about 10 years already deprived by his family in an empty hut, with the right leg clamped conditions using wooden blocks. In fact, due to decades of living in pasungan, current conditions are very memperihantinkan. His body was skin and bones from lack of food intake. The father of two children looked great suffering of the family can not take seeing a mental hospital in Lawang, Malang.
As for Munir, Samsudin older cousin, a similar fate. He was deprived of about 100 meters away from the deprivation of Samsudin. Munir deprived the condition of the hands and feet chained to a mango tree to the west of his home. Since five years ago, Munir lived under a tree with just a plastic tent roof.
Samsudin wife, Sauda (35), said that pasungan be the last choice out of desperation with mental illness suffered by her husband since 12 years ago. Samsudin who married in 1999dan has given two children, initially suffering from neurological diseases. Despite her husband's income barely adequate as construction laborers, Sauda faithfully accompanied Samsudin to see a nerve specialist in Situbondo.
"If you take medication, get well, but later another recurrence. We got to sell the home ground for the cost of the medicine. But it still does not heal. It's not genetic, because the other family there is nothing like this. Peak occurred in 2006, illness suffered more severe, so the family was forced memasungnya, "he explained.
While Munir also deprived because of tantrums he suffered from neurological diseases. 40 year-old man suspected of suffering from depression after a divorce with his wife.
But more alarming Samsudin conditions. His body was emaciated because it has been two weeks of not eating and drinking. His parents, Siwan and Nawiyah, admitted that he had resigned with his daughter's condition. "Actually we have been trying to cure them, but have not succeeded," said Nawiyah while wiping her tears.
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