Educated people go insane

Educated people go insane

BANYUMAS, Central Java: Director of the state-run Banyumas
Hospital, Sutoto, disclosed a surprising fact on Friday that the
majority of psychiatric patients are educated people from the
middle and upper income groups.

According to Sutoto, most of the 53 patients treated at the
mental hospital, went insane as they could not longer cope with
the impact of the country's severe economic crisis.

Before the crisis hit the country in 1997, psychiatric
patients mostly came from lower class society and their illnesses
were related to hereditary factors.

"This time around, many of our patients have a high level of
education and come from the middle and upper income groups," the
doctor told The Jakarta Post. (45)