COMMENT | How can Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and the coalition government take the nation forward depends on whether they are able to correctly analyse the deep roots of the current diseases that are affecting the nation’s society, economy, and politics.

From this, honest analysis can then produce the policy initiatives and medication that can help cure Malaysia of the multiple illnesses that we see today and which will continue to recur until a fatal attack devastates the country.

The first step in trauma treatment is to identify how and why the trauma - physical and psychological - has come about. Medical science identifies three major types of trauma - acute, chronic, and complex.

Trauma can stem not only from acts of violence but also as an outcome of bullying, intimidation, oppression and subjugation.