Boy does this explain a lot!
Finally a reason for some the schizophrenia on this site :P From today's Gulf Times.
Psychiatric disorders ‘on the rise in Qatar’
By Noimot Olayiwola
PSYCHIATRISTS have voiced concern over the recent rise in psychiatric disorder cases due to substance abuse, as well as high incidence of violence among male adolescents.
Two psychiatrists at the Rumailah hospital’s Psychiatry Department, Dr Amira al-Kharaz and Dr Iram Kassis, told Gulf Times that the disorders, prevalent among young male Qataris, could be traced to over-use of certain substances such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine, hashish as well as some tobacco products.
“We are seeing an increase in the number of psychiatric disorders due to substance abuse increasingly among males in their early adulthood and we will like to use this opportunity to urge families to be more vigilant on the movements of their children and they should not hesitate to preport romptly any abnormal behaviours to the healthcare providers as soon as they discover,” Dr Kharaz said.
According to her, psychiatric disorders are a wide range of group of disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder (repetitive thoughts or rituals), mood disorders, schizophrenia (having delusions, hallucinations) and others.
She explained that if unexplained changes in physical appearance or behaviour is noticed in any person, it may be a sign of substance use or it could be a sign of another psychiatric problem.
The psychiatrists mentioned that acute psychotic disorders are seen increaingly among both males and females, particularly among housemaids and labourers.
“This category of people may have difficulties adjusting to their new living conditions and circumstances surrounding them. We also found that some are terribly home-sick, have fragile personality, under work stress as well as inappropriate accomodations,” Dr Kharaz said.
She added that language difficulties also worsen their adjustment to their new environment.
The psychiatrists attributed the increase in violence in the community to the over-exposure of youngsters to violent audio-visuals.
“The computer games with violent scenes have devastating effects on our youngsters because they teach violent attitudes and behaviours towards family members, colleagues at school as well as teachers,” they said.
However, according to the psychiatrists, psychiatric disorders could be tackled through bio-psychosocial interventions with a multidisciplinary teamwork.
“The duration of medication and treatment depends on the depth of the illness, it could take months in order to give room for serious assessment and reduce the risk of relapse,” Dr Kassis explained.
The doctors revealed that the Psychiatry Department was planning to increase the present number of beds for its patients, add a forensic cases section as well as provide improved healthcare services.
I am not sure about census taking outside of the U.S., but when you check the 'White' race box, it includes people of the Middle East. The 'White' choice used to be Caucasian in my younger years.
I thought it was actually an interesting article.. :S
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my knowledge in history has nothing to do with Australia's withdrawal from the island. It was YOU who propesed this withdrawal, not me. Maybe you should continue your school studies?
oh where is the love, the love, the love.....????
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Maybe you should read up on the history of the Christmas Islands, If australia withdraws from there (which I doubt as Australian Governmentstill has a major intrest in the mining co-op there and if it and not to mention that the mining of phosphate was the only significante econmy on the island till 1987) then our Parks and wildlife servises will also cease, Also Telstra 9 an Australian telecommunications company which up until just recently was majority owned by the Government the would withdraw its services from there leaving the island pretty much in an un-contactable state. It would appear to me Rumpelstiltskin you know less of your own history and even less about the world.
read the above....once again:
just remember that your hate to a whole nation was very clear when you expressed your passion about blowing arab men......up
Here is a reminder, Gypo the Hypo:
Wed, 18/07/2007 - 5:13pm — Gypsy
"I love blowing Arab men up...
I love blowing Arab men up. I find they get better distance then white guys, and make a much louder splat"
Why do you insist that we (westerners) are here to suck a few more bucks out of Qatar. We did not invade the country and hijack the gas reserves. Qatar could have trained thier own citizens to do this work but they choose to outsource it. Of course we are here to make $ but the local gov sets thier own price. It's business, theres something in it for each party.
...and your generalizations about westerners hating everyone else is just narrow. Of course I cant speack for everyone but there are plenty of us (including myself) who could care nothing about where you are from aside from curiosity about other cultures. If you assume ALL people of any origin are the same you are bound to be wrong everytime. Why put your foot in your mouth in the first place?
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Mitch
we (Christams Islanders) can make good business from tourism (OZ tourists not included)!
Cheeaz Mite!
lol so whats new? :P
You know, that you are screwed, when ur phone rings, while you sneak into your own house like a thief and your wife is asleep at 3 am in the morning... Perhaps that would be the last time you enter your own house lol.
I will inform the Australian embassy that you wish to hand over your Australian Passport shall I? that you no longer wish to enjoy the freedoms that come with being a citizen of the free west and you wish australia to withdraw its self from your country and leave it be. I will tell them you no longer wish to use our currency and have your own which in the world stock market has no real current value? I will tell them you wish to that we leave your country alone and it can fend for itself, Australia then can withdraw all it's funding and monitery benifits that we afford you and YOU can Really learn what it is like to stand on your own two feet in this world. I must warn you though your country will only have about a 20% survival rate should you wish to go through with this propersition as once Australia withdraws its soveriegnty all welfare from Australia all the special treatment that is afforded to you by Australia such as Cheaper education , government loans at a nominal rate and welfare will cease.
must be renamed "Festive holiday island"
Once again Airsupply, I didn't realize you were a nation, now that I know you alone are the sole representative of all Arabic people I won't insult you again. :P
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yeah you can call me whatever you want but still I will never let (western) hateful people like you make hate threads without insisting to put the mirror in their faces.....specially when they leave ALL their "common wealth" and come here to suck a few more bucks. (never bite the hand that feeds you)
what's up Doc?
I am from the original people of the Island before "white man" comes to make me a part of the "beloved sovreignty"!!! So actually YOU are enjoying the freedom I give you while you occupy MY Island :-)
To-day do I bake, to-morrow I brew,
The day after that the queen's child comes in;
And oh! I am glad that nobody knew
That the name I am called is Rumpelstiltskin!"
When the dwarf came to the queen on the third day and she revealed his name, Rumpelstiltskin lost his bargain. In the 1812 edition of the Brothers Grimm tales, Rumpelstiltskin then "ran away angrily, and never came back". The ending was revised in a final 1857 edition to a more gruesome version where Rumpelstiltskin "in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands and tore himself in two." Other versions have Rumpelstiltskin driving his right foot so far into the ground that he creates a chasm and falls into it, never to be seen again. In the oral version originally collected by the brothers Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin flies out of the window on a cooking ladle (Heidi Anne Heiner).
The name Rumpelstilzchen in German means literally "little rattle stilt". A rumpelstilt or rumpelstilz was the name of a type of goblin, also called a pophart or poppart that makes noises by rattling posts and rapping on planks...
Lets wait for the end of the story then..!
Somebody told me, "You are what you eat".Now I know why I'm nuts!!
*** Typing error... Gyosy = Gypsy
Gyosy.. ah i get it now.. coz it was a normal post.. and was wondering did i miss somethin.. lol..
On a Save the World from White People Mission...or what...LOL!!! How are my two dear dear buddies...
Harsha, one of the mentally disturbed people from the article I posted showed up.
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But according to your profile you are a westerner as well, cause last time I checked the Christmas Islands are a sovreignty of Australia and as you well may have forgotton Australia is part of the evil west that you so much protest against. Now I could be wrong but as a sovreignty of Australia, you would have an Aus passport NO ? So in other words you enjoy the freedom we give you to travel but you hate us?
how did this post become about some nation hatings thread???
a whole nation was very clear when you expressed your passion about blowing arab men......up
I didn't realize you were a nation? I thought you were one rather irritating person.
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You have just proven my conclusion about the hate that westerners have to other nations!
I am always right, even when I am wrong :-)
Yup directed at you. I'm within every right to direct hateful comments at you.
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satisfies you doesnt matter me bull poser.
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"some even violent. Wanting to kill Westerners "
this is a hate statement coming from a hateful westerner (Canadian)
I can understand your frustration with this "Iraqi woman's" taste (white race)...I guess you have suffered all your life from this problem!
Western hate threads?
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she works in QA :)
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we have you & rudy replying here ;-)
I only responded to your thread because it is not my habit to let western hate threads just pass me by!
who loves to blow white men .... up.
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i saw this exhibit in villagio by the drugs committee... they were showing how ppl import drugs and have shown many qatari's(or maybe arabs.. not sure) under the influence of drugs and gettin into an accident...
Ya, we all saw your post about 20 minutes ago, it was ignored, you don't have to repost it.
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who said earlier: "Yes! I love to blow arab men....up"
Hmm, there's a couple on here with paranoid delsusions, some even violent. Wanting to kill Westerners and the like. Psychiatrists would have a field day with QL. :P
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Right now, I know one expat guy in Qatar who's totally gone...and no, he doesnt do anything on the lines of intoxication other than a coupla mugs of beer once a week.
He's a basket case of nerves now, and sporadically remembers those good ol' days in which his only wish was to live as a farmer/mahout in some faraway village in India and grow enough produce to meet his needs.
What caused this you may ask...his recent addiction to discussion forums where he got to meet quite a lot of diverse 'characters'...yeah thats it!!
he doesnt know how to think and what to think now. I guess he jus needs to log off and go fishing. what do u say?
Somebody told me, "You are what you eat".Now I know why I'm nuts!!