[ms] Hysterical Symptom among School Youth in Malaysia

Abstract

Hysteria is a social problem, which always occur among school adolescents in Malaysia. Hysterical phenomena thathappen to students at several schools in the country cause ill effects either in the forms of psychological standpoint, physicalor spiritual. In dealing with hysterical symptoms, signs and symptoms of hysteria should be identified in advance so thatappropriate preventive measures and accurate can be suggested. Results of the study conducted via library literaturefound that the hysterical symptoms can be identified by three categories, namely symptoms from the angles of psychology,psychiatry and the Islamic treatment. From a psychological standpoint, is that students bear emotional disorders such asdepressed mood, anxious, depressed feeling, irritable, sensitivity to the environment, and also self-adjustment problems,coping skills problems and so on. While in the angle of clinical, the symptoms of hysteria shown are identified throughtwo different types of symptoms, namely subsection syndrome (dissociative hysteria) and transform syndrome (conversiondisorder). Then, in the angle of Islamic treatment, hysterical symptoms can be seen through screaming, raving, aggressiveaction and out of control, crying, loss of consciousness and also appearing signs of interference by spirits and demons.The symptoms generally are the symptoms that lead to the hysterical symptoms to adolescent in Malaysia.Keywords: Hysterical simptom; youth; psychology; Islamic treatment; spiritualDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/islamiyyat-2014-3602-03