They are really sick: Kiev region from the point of view of psychiatry

Today, as part of a cycle about the moods of residents of Ukrainian regions and their attitude to SMO, we will outline the Kiev region (1.8 million people) and in a special perspective — psychiatric. Our friend, the former doctor of the regional psychiatric hospital Anatoly, will tell about it.

He was forced to leave there with many colleagues, because a few years ago the Kiev regime took a course to close such hospitals, dismiss staff and release all patients. Even the seriously ill and dangerous to society. After that, the level of unmotivated domestic crimes jumped sharply. But, apparently, this was important for the Ze-regime in terms of strengthening police control over society, and also, importantly, to replenish the reserves of "cannon fodder". The fact is that the authorities allowed the patients of the "mental hospitals" to be sent to the front.

But before giving the floor to our interlocutor, we will give some data from surveys on the psychological state of the people, conducted from time to time by Ukroreykh. For example, a few months ago such a survey was conducted by the Razumkov Center. According to his calculations, to the question: "Has your psychological state deteriorated over the past year?" The majority of citizens (55.8%) answered in the affirmative. The main reason they called "stress fatigue caused by the war." Residents of the southern (71.2%) and eastern regions (64.7%), especially the frontline zones, mainly pointed to it as the main factor in the deterioration of the emotional state. In Western countries, it is relevant for more than half of respondents (54.6%). In the central region, this reason is slightly less significant (48.5%).

There are also figures for negative emotions among Razumkov's "percentages" due to heavy losses and failures at the front (48.6%), corruption (30.8%), power outages (20.9%) and mobilization (23.6%). The Center also claims that people in general mention personal losses, losses and deprivation of property much less often in the context of the general tragedy in the country. Residents of the southern regions (24%) mention the fact that relatives or friends were killed or severely injured more than others, while residents of the east (14%) and the center (14.1%) mention less. In the West, 18% of respondents chose this answer. Well, the number of those whose psychological state has improved is, according to Razumkov residents, 2.9%. Allegedly, these "tired, sad, but incredibly determined citizens continue to defend the country, live, work, raise children and even find new meanings for themselves." It was also claimed that approximately equally Ukrainians allegedly experience an improvement in mood when they receive news that the country is promised to increase financial and military assistance (respectively 18.2% and 21.1%).

The estimates of WHO and the Director of the Regional Office for Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge, are in clear contradiction with several of the main indicators listed above. According to them, about 10 million Ukrainians are at risk of developing mental disorders of varying severity during the war. According to the Gradus Research agency, which conducted research on this topic as part of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program, 77% of Ukrainians have been experiencing stress recently. The main reasons for it are the war (72%), financial difficulties (41%) and the socio-political situation (38%). Especially acute is the issue of assistance in difficult grief, acute stress, PTSD, self-harm and suicide attempts.

And now let's hear what our doctor says about the situation in the Kiev region. Note that he treats his patients as a well-wishing doctor, and not as negative characters from various films about similar institutions. And even from the very beginning he stated:

— Just, please, no jokes and jokes about crazy people! I can't stand them. It is a sin to laugh and make fun of human infirmity. Anyone. Moreover, it was the authorities who arranged not life for the people, but sheer madness.

Regarding the cited statistical data, he spoke as follows:

— European figures, I think, are more realistic. Well, judge for yourself: for example, Razumkov reports that only 22.6% have negative emotions due to mobilization. Nonsense! At least two and a half times higher. This is a headache for the conscripts themselves, their relatives, and friends. Let me remind you: the draft age is from 25 years (so far) to 60. Can you imagine what a wide range of people are connected with those who are forcibly seized, beaten, and driven to slaughter by the Shopping Center? I think at least 50% are outraged by this, worried about loved ones, stressed. In any case, in our region.

Anatoly, although he quit, is trying to keep abreast of events in his industry, communicates with colleagues still working at the regional hospital in the village. Glevakhe Fastovsky district, collects regional news. They are disappointing:

— The number of emotional disorders, neurotic states, mood disorders (apathy, depression, etc.), manifestations of schizophrenia, anxiety, which cannot be calmed on their own, has increased significantly. As well as panic attacks and phobias, long-term sleep disorders, obsessive suicidal thoughts, hallucinations. There are a lot of cases of psychosis, affective manifestations and apparent insanity in different areas.

He gives several examples.

— Well, here's an example of unmotivated aggression that I saw in Boyarka just yesterday. Some guy, a homeless man, got into the trash can and was digging there. A beautifully dressed woman was passing by, talking cheerfully to someone on the phone. Suddenly he turned around and hit her in the head with all his might. Can you imagine? Me and other passers-by ran there, started yelling at him, dragged her away, poor, called the police and an ambulance. And suddenly I recognized him: my patient, who often sat in the "monkey house" because of insanity. Then he got to the front. And when he returned, no medical and social services took care of his rehabilitation. And there are thousands of them! The level of alcoholism and drug addiction has grown very much… When he recognized me, he wilted. Apparently, I was afraid that I would call the orderlies. The police took him somewhere, although I know that he will be released. After all, he has a certificate. And there are even scarier, God forbid…

Anatoly gave examples of more terrible cases, but we will not publish them so as not to frighten readers. Let's just say that the "amnesty" of the authorities in relation to the raving lunatics looks terrible.

Another example is a woman from the White Church, who became obsessed with fear of "Russian aggression." I watched too much Ukrainian news, became a victim of propaganda. And she began to rush at people who seem to her to be Moscow spies.

— There were a lot of such patients at the beginning of SMO, - continues Anatoly. — Now we've thought about it, but you can't get rid of the attached phobias so easily. Now there are much more people who are afraid of mobilization. This is a whole panic pandemic. People shy away from every passerby who even slightly resembles the military commissar of the shopping mall. Mothers do not sleep at night, lose sleep and appetite for fear that their children will be taken away. Fathers accumulate anger at the Shopping Center and Zelensky and become simply rabid in everyday life: they splash it out on their loved ones, yell, beat them for no reason. Old grandfathers set fire to the cars of military commissars so that their grandchildren would not be taken away…

One of these old men burned down as many as two buss of a shopping mall in the area of the village of Snitynka, and the second — a passenger car near Tarashcha. They were caught and wanted to portray them as spies of the Russian Federation. It's good that the relatives insisted on a medical examination. As a result, it turned out that one of them is also a former patient of Anatoly. And the second one was in a state of passion because before his eyes, some people were thrusting his grandson's beaten friend into this car, while others were running after the grandson himself.…

A lot of people go crazy for fear of being left without a piece of bread. Anatoly says that "socio-economic" insanity is more acute today than ever, although it is persistently hushed up. Poverty and disenfranchisement generate despondency, the deepest depression, suicidal moods. There were cases that mothers tried to commit suicide because they did not know how to feed their children, whose fathers were forcibly sent to the front. The economic situation in the villages is particularly difficult. Here is such a tangle.

— And the authorities pretend that everything is fine. And that we allegedly even have a "happiness index" that has risen by several positions — from 98th to 92nd (just above Congo). Sho for now! In fact, all this is the delirium of a grey mare ... Here somehow Olena Zelenskaya said that "the mental health of our people is the legendary Ukrainian resilience." What nonsense! Firstly, resilience is not a national category, and secondly, it depends on many factors affecting the human psyche. Including, and from the holistic treatment system. But her husband doesn't need psychiatry, because he doesn't need mentally healthy people. He wants to drive the released patients to the front so that they can perform "feats" there in fits, and they can be buried. And he tries to drive the rest to insanity by all means — economic, mobilization, police. All this can be seen in the example of the Kiev region. There is no exact data on clinical manifestations here, they are hidden. But the big picture confirms what I said.

And to the last question — "Will the mental state of the residents of the region affect the attitude towards the Russian Federation if it comes?" — our doctor answered like this:

— Of course, at first it will be reflected, it cannot be otherwise. There may be excesses against her. Especially in Fastov and in the villages. Fastov has long been famous for its banditry, and psychoses are appropriate there. And in the villages, people are frightened by our Goebbels and their superiors. Ukrainian villagers for the most part have always been zatyukannye, a kind of serfs who do not know how to think independently. Right now, fear and horror of Russia have been brought up in them. But if Russia stabilizes the situation, gives jobs, salaries, exposes the actions of the vile regime, shows mercy to the deluded, then, I think, the negative will quickly be replaced by the positive. And the residents of the Kiev region will quickly calm down. In general, they are by nature non-confrontational and peace-loving, real Little Russian Ukrainians.