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Living with mental illness
Filed under NewsMar 5JEDDAH/TAIF/DHAMAD – Residents and shop workers in a southern Jeddah district are accustomed to seeing Muhammad Sultan running around in the streets scratching his body.
His elderly mother blames herself for her only childs condition. “For 16 years he has suffered from mental illness. I noticed his silence and introversion but I thought it would go away, until he was fired from his job because he had been absent. Maybe my failure to take him to doctors when it first occurred made his suffering worse,” she said.
She said that his condition has worsened recently, to the point where he often “ate the leaves of trees. But he doesnt hurt anybody”, the mother added. She said Muhammad spends his days sitting in front of nearby shops and only comes home to eat or sleep.
Tagged as: Abdul Aziz Al-Rabii, Abdul Aziz Maafa, Abdulhameed Habeeb, Abdulrahman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem, Abrahim Al-Qirbi, Ahmad Al-Harbi, Al-Balad, consultant, director of Psychological and Social Health, draft law;, Environment Committee, Food, Health Affairs and Environment Committee, Human Rights Commission;, Hussein Al-Shareef, illness, JEDDAH, Jeddah Medical Center, Jeddahs Psychiatric Hospital, Makkahs Annoor Specialist Hospital, member, mental illness, Ministry of Health;, Ministry of Healths, Muhammad Sultan, psychiatric consultant, Psychiatric health law, psychiatry consultant and Medical Director, psychological disorders, Riyadh, Sami Bin Ahmad Al-Humaida, schizophrenia, Shoura Council;, Suhail Abdulhameed Khan, supervisor, Taif Mental Hospital
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