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Afghanistan: Little Help for Conflict-Linked Trauma

 

By Human Rights Watch, October 7, 2019

The Afghan government is failing to provide sufficient psychosocial, or mental health, support to Afghans who have experienced traumatic events, Human Rights Watch said today.

More than half the Afghan population, including many survivors of conflict-related violence, struggle with depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress, but fewer than 10 percent receive adequate psychosocial support from the state, according to government documents. The Afghan government and international donors should expand mental health services and outreach campaigns.

“Decades of violence have left many Afghans experiencing deep psychological wounds, as well as physical ones,” said Jonathan Pedneault, conflict and crisis researcher at Human Rights Watch. “There is an urgent need for expanded psychosocial services to support Afghans exposed to violence, suicide bombings, and airstrikes, and prevent the long-term effects that can be debilitating to survivors, families, and entire communities.”

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Mental wounds of Afghan people have never been  healed....they have been living in war for half a century....and even those who no longer live in Afghanistan specially children have to deal with the long term impact.

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