China’s mental health problem is, for lack of a better word, depressing. We cross paths with thousands of people on a daily basis in the PRC’s biggest cities, with one in eight people statistically suffering from one debilitating mental disorder or another.
This past year has been especially challenging for many who’ve lost a job, had their wage cut, or are entering an anemic workforce. While more resources have been dedicated to mental health in recent years as well as the proliferation of mental health apps in China, cultural stigmas can adversely impact those in society who need help the most. Here we dive into China’s mental health infrastructure and address what needs to happen for the country’s population suffering from mental health disorders to receive the care they need.
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“How can acquiring knowledge be more important than putting food on the table?” This line from a Chinese short film called “Students at Guohua Memorial Middle School” reflects the painful struggle facing poverty-stricken households in paying for education fees for their children.
An aerial view of Guohua Memorial Middle School. [Screenshot courtesy of Haokan Video]
The film is based on true stories of Guohua Memorial Middle School, which focuses on reshaping destinies of needy students.
Established in Foshan city, south China’s Guangdong province in 2002, Guohua Memorial Middle School is China’s first private boarding senior high school that doesn’t charge students anything.
Barbara Gastel, a physician specializing in biomedical writing and editing, is professor of integrative biosciences, humanities in medicine, and biotechnology at Texas A&M University, where she coordinates the master s degree program in science and technology journalism.
Gastel earned a BA from Yale and an MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins. After medical school, she did an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) mass media fellowship at Newsweek. She then worked in communication and administration at the National Institutes of Health. She also has taught science writing at MIT. Before joining the Texas A&M faculty in 1989, she was assistant dean for teaching at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
larry: neurosurgeons from the university health science center targets the brain and not the belly. here to talk about it is dr. julian bales, he s a neurosurgeon at west virginia university. what have we discovered? explain what this dbs is, doctor. this is inserts electrodes deep in the hypothalamus, this study will see if this possibly will have some benefit for patients with morbid obesity, the ones that really their life expectancy will be affected. larry: does it work? electrodes are placed in the hypothalamus into the center that makes you feel full.