(I) Perhaps no country in Asia needs mental health care more than Cambodia, a tormented nation where the scars of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime are still fresh even a quarter of a century later. (II) Actually there has been a rapid improvement in mental health care in neighboring countries. (Ill) According to a survey conducted by the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (PTO), 75% of adult Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffer from either extreme stress of post-traumatic stress disorder. (IV) Children born to this broken generation haven't done much better. (V) Aid workers estimate that 40% of young Cambodians suffer from stress disorders caused by growing up in a disappointed social group.