[ms] Hysterical Symptom among School Youth in Malaysia

Abstract

Hysteria is a social problem, which always occur among school adolescents in Malaysia. Hysterical phenomena that
happen to students at several schools in the country cause ill effects either in the forms of psychological standpoint, physical
or spiritual. In dealing with hysterical symptoms, signs and symptoms of hysteria should be identified in advance so that
appropriate preventive measures and accurate can be suggested. Results of the study conducted via library literature
found 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 as
depressed 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 through
two different types of symptoms, namely subsection syndrome (dissociative hysteria) and transform syndrome (conversion
disorder). Then, in the angle of Islamic treatment, hysterical symptoms can be seen through screaming, raving, aggressive
action 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; spiritual

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/islamiyyat-2014-3602-03