Response to Naryanto's Case from Wonogiri, Feels Depression Due to His Loss of Mother

WONOGIRI (10 August 2021) - The Ministry of Social Affairs is present through Social Rehabilitation Center “Margo Laras” Pati to respond to beneficiaries who experience symptoms of mental disorders in Wonogiri Regency, Central Java Province.

Following up on the direction of the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini, Margo Laras Case Response Team moved closer to Wonogiri (10/8). Margo Laras team, consisting of social workers and nurses, first coordinated with the Wonogiri District Social Service, Soeharso Surakarta Center, and the local village government.

Then carry out a rapid assessment of Naryanto (31 years old), a resident of Jatirejo Village, Girimarto District, Wonogiri Regency.

Naryanto is the second of two children, his last education is Junior High School (SMP), and does not have a job. Her sister is married and lives in Bandung selling meatballs, and her mother died 2 years ago in August 2019.

Now Naryanto lives alone with his father who works as a builder and farmer, owns a house in his personal name, a rice field, and 2 goats.

Before feeling depression he had been working in agriculture and raising goats and helping his brother sell meatballs in the city of Bandung. After his mother died, he returned to his home in Wonogiri to live with his father, and since then he has been experiencing symptoms of a mental disorder.

"When the mental health assessment was carried out, the beneficiary said the body felt stiff, there were whispers or auditory hallucinations in the form of a man's voice, his voice was not clear," explained Andreas, a nurse at Margo Laras.

Naryanto's father agreed that his son's body felt stiff, and revealed that male voices were whispering, making it difficult for him to sleep for 3 (three) days. Until now, the beneficiaries still seem confused about the road without direction and purpose in the forest around the house. The background begins with the loss of his mother whose he loved the most and by breaking up with his girlfriend.

"Naryanto has never been treated in a mental hospital, has no history of drug abuse, has no history of infectious diseases, epilepsy does not have multiple disabilities," concluded Andreas.