Young and suicidal in Malaysia — Wong Soak Koon
MAY 22 — The tragic suicide of a 16 year old Malaysian girl has sent shock waves reverberating, the more so when it is learnt that netizens, whom she desperately polled, told her to die.
The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms”. A recurrent trope in Victorian Literature is “the mad woman in the attic” and we may still have some such unfortunate soul, male and female alike, young or old, hidden away in attics somewhere in Malaysia.
But how often do parents have the time and readiness for deep listening and calm, meaningful dialogue? If the norm today is the nuclear family then where is one to find that “village” especially since urban living does tend to isolate each household? More alarming is a general sense of malaise and ennui among some young people that has no easily discernible or definitive cause.For those not well-heeled ,who therefore cannot afford expensive psychiatrists, there should be government — run counselling services staffed by excellent personnel.in which she exposes the inner tensions of a 14 year old girl, Canadian writer, Alice Munro, invites us into the anxious thoughts of her young protagonist.
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