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Theres been an outpouring of personal stories and messages of support online under the hash tag w d seven eighteen one in four adults and one in ten young people will experience a Mental Health problem cara tweets be kind while matt sends a reminder that Mental Health problems are not luxuries nor first World Problems and its a point made clear by the International Rescue committee which tweeted this video of displaced iraqi children recovering from trauma by using breathing and meditation techniques and though Mental Health effects everyone some on line pointed out persistent stigma in many cases involving men and in others simply due to a lack of understanding and its a challenge some are addressing head on one of those people said the con the mayor of london has spoken about his plans to reduce stigma. Weve seen over the past few years the difference. Training. Prevents people from. Ill health and how we respond to that im helping having better. Few people sort of mental issues those that do they wont feel stigmatized perceive the help they need. The stigma just mentioned around Mental Health is just one of many barriers to treating Syrian Refugees many have experienced or witnessed atrocities during the war in syria now in its seventh year that war has created a Staggering Number of refugees more than five million many hour risk of psychological trauma and in need of Mental Health services to cope with off to brutal memories from home and the difficult journey to escape and start life in a new country turkish authorities have estimated that fifty five percent of the three million Syrian Refugees there need Mental Health care while half of those families believe they need psychological support in germany which is taken in almost two hundred seventy thousand Syrian Refugees one study estimates fifty percent have Mental Health issues and have been victims of violence resources to address Mental Health scare us but experts say immediate treatment is needed to avoid long term damage is one way a syrian child expressed the trauma he experienced in war have a look. So just how difficult is it to receive treatment well here to help us discuss the challenges in helping refugees cope with trauma doctors i have a son who is the founder of mad global and former president of the Syrian American medical society. Is kind of cool director for them my foundation and in berlin have met happy is a peer counselor with the International Psycho social organization its good to have you here everybody just to say here you are living your work on your twitter feed if you have a look here hear. To. Twitter feed. For your image you have an amazing picture of tell me whats here was a picture is you know that picture very well i put this picture on my twitter feed four years ago when i met this child in a little hearing one of the missions he was second grade and when you ask a child to draw something he usually draw pictures of happy children playing rivers and son and this child through helicopters dropping barrel bombs and houses on fire and children who are mutilated and crying and thats to me is very painful so i kept this picture to remind me of the reality in syria because many times we talk about numbers and statistics but we have to focus and im interested that we just do that its like half of two hundred seventy thousand and ten gas three million and we did statistics but we didnt drill down into individual personal stories this is one of a set of pictures that i want to tell our audience about you asked the carrots to draw life before the war in syria life after the war have a look at the video because look very carefully at the different stocks here talk us through this. Well children are smart and they dont lie and what they draw is basically the reflection of reality and they drew pictures of happy life before the war of them playing off son rivers of green trees and then after the war that has changed completely and this is the basically the reflection of the war on themselves on their psyche many many times children cannot express it by wards but they can express this by drawing and art therapy is one way to deal with the psychological trauma and this is one way to make them express whats happening to them so we used our therapy in the Syrian American medical society and other n. G. O. S to treat children with psychological trauma among other things so here is someone who says that picture really struck them this is a marine selima doctor on twitter who wrote pick drawn by a refugee child absolutely tragic did anyone notice that the child drawn with child was drawn with a smile heartbreaking and im just as human here so you can see that this is that thats amazing you know this child drew the children who are dead are smiling and the children who are alive are crying so imagine this trauma to this child that he believes that all children who are alive are crying and theyre hurting and their children who are dead are in better place and this is the l. T. A. In syria because its not only that you are in the refugee camp but inside syria you are day after day you are exposed to extreme level of trauma and violence and you have to deal with it and sometimes with very limited support by the community because of the stigma of Mental Health because of the fact that Many Health Care professionals do not have the training to provide Mental Health first aid psychological first aid and actually live thats why i wanted to bring you in here because i know you participate you still take workshops of art therapy and you have your own story when a child was drawing a picture of a mosque to tell that story. I do get a lot of children who are growing steadily and memories and incidents that they have witnessed or they have heard and one of those incidents were wrong a mass and he drew something that was lying on top of the picture and i asked him what was happening in that jury and he said that the mask were back to being back up and he said theyre not working but it was going to survive so ben would talk about going to boil and he told me that this was an actual incident. And that he would bet people inside didnt survive and was just passing by so i asked him if there was any you would want to do and change in this picture and he said that he would want to save the people that were being attacked so when he said that he and the mosque and that would be a mountain that there were about to attack and then i suppose we are going to anybody else that was and around them so that they could go and reach the people and give them some hope so drawing into you know an art therapy intervention but was able to. Burn genetic memory and maybe a split from one of the get over and over again and have some sort of journal. On thing him and head. Memories and will incidences that they have and most of them have less red ones in these. Wars and instances and. I was there was a time when you were at the main bus station and i think it illustrates that even when youre out of immediate danger that when youre a youngster in fact anyone whos been in the syrian war that trauma continues there was a child and i want you to tell the story can you finish it for me. Sadly was about to bring it up actually well that was one of the most moving moments for me after all this chaos that was going on because it was still so precious the refugee crisis and we were at the central bus station in barely where we were just receiving many people coming or receiving a prince or whoever and then there was a lady coming out of a who is were just and the usual air craft and barely and was just passing by and then that child just ducked down had his head on the ground and was just shouting and screaming and you can see how much unassailable it was how much the mother was have less the father was have less to deal with whats going on there so maybe the person reaction is to yell at him and this is also cultural and then just to say to him just to shut up or keep it keep it low we are in public or something but there i saw how much help is how much we need awareness and we need to do something ourselves lets talk about getting that help i want to show you a little clip from a save the Children Campaign they were talking about invisible when so this is Mental Health for adults and also for cats have a look at this story from a syrian family. And the other yeah i also love letter. Love of sure. I mean no i mean the to miss my suddenly out of comic if youre going to. Sign any. Addict i. Know ahead of c. N. N. Just me based on a lot. Of lethality. I. Took my. Daughter i defy anyone to watch that im not to feel pain where you start you have traumatized parents you have a choice child no longer in syria no longer in danger what do you do how do you start. Its difficult for a syrian not to feel pain and have tears in their eyes when they hear these stories because it happened with every family in syria were talking about the wars humanitarian crisis in our lifetime where most of the population have been affected my nephew himself had the same issues that this child had where he was afraid of hearing airplanes and jets because he was in the city of hamas and in the middle of the bombing so every time he hears an airplane its you know it brings memories with him so thats the typical post Traumatic Stress disorder disorder p. T. S. D. Doesnt happen only to children but happens also to adults and it stays with them for the rest of their lives and so these children and adults are traumatized they are not able to cope with the realities theyre under pressure and the refugee camps when they go to the refugee camps in lebanon or turkey or jordan because there is no hope in the future there is no schooling where schools can bring some level of normalcy there is no Community Support sometimes children have to work early so there is child labor there is exploitation by extremist groups sometimes and then you have early marriage for young girls. As a psychologist where do you start then not that its almost think the list is some bearable. That young people and that parents are adults having to manage with whats the you can get them i think the most important thing is first of all to educate ourselves and the community that these issues are happening and it will affect not only that child or the person whos effect with Mental Illness but the whole society because this is the generation that will be rebuilding their homeland when they go that so unless we take care of them right now and we know first of all the scale of the problem and how can we deal with it theyre not going to be able to build syria when they go back from the refugee camps the other thing that we have to provide the resources and put our minds minds together i mean the reason that were talking. About this topic today because its the war Mental Health day and its important to bring this issue Mental Health a problem that is affecting not only refugees but large number of people and the middle east and syria there is a stigma with Mental Health so if you are labeled depressed or anxious or have psychosis or p. T. S. D. Then people can call you crazy and are a big measure known that there is this stigma that will stay with you for the rest of their life and there are very limited Resources Available so i can see you nodding your head there i wanted to bring up this tweet from maggie who says there is a lot of stigma on Mental Health and there in our invisible disabilities that are recorded upon arrival to Reception Center so you know we talked about when you actually have to when you leave the conflict zone and you do reach safety in one of these other countries you dont necessarily get screened for that should you and is that something that people are aware of well better by in our peer to peer counseling we make sure sure the trust and the confidentiality and. Use point in assuring that you will not be stigmatized i mean like we keep it between us and we always i want to when we approach our clients or the people that we are for them the support and we got with them or they come to us we just make sure their word psychological or anything because it is a big burden that we have to overcome every time like we do counseling through the on line to in lebanon or in syria we always know that this is a huge obstacle and we have always. And i have got some pictures here of you did. A story with National Public radio in the United States have a look here this is you counseling newly arrived refugee how do you start you dont talk about psychological issues you dont talk about Mental Health whats the conversation you have to work out how much help this new refugee might meet. Exactly well mostly we when we go on an island with with our client or with the with any person who comes for support we just. To try to see that on an eye level we try to see behind the diagnosis or anything we could start by just giving a lot of empathy and i myself experienced things i meant human we all have stressors we all want to throw a lot of things in our lives and thats not shame so lets create this tape space in our counseling session where recurring just to gather have a Mutual Understanding based on a very critical cultural approach in our counseling on the mother language which is a huge also obstacle in germany in the Mental Health system and then the person just appeals to feel that he himself or herself seen that itself as a huge star and then we are sure that understanding and Mutual Understanding are whats happening we go through a lot of our interests and through a lot of. Psychologic ation where we assure to our client that they can be actually in charge and on the drivers seat of their lives through their resources their reconnecting them to their partner but then shows and letting them feel that they cant be copping with whatever has happened to them yes the trauma would stay there but theres the whats they but after all i would say we cant cope we have copping strategies and were humans worse the life i just want to bring this to reality and different aspect because many times when you when we go into medical missions to a refugee camp lets listen as atika where i went there six months ago enjoyed seeing you and your enjoying a giant camp its the largest camp or refugee camp in the ward after kenya camp for Somali Refugees in kenya its the fifth largest city in jordan more than a hundred and seventy thousand refugees lived in it at one point that now its about eighty thousand so i had this patient who came to me im an internal. And specialist so she came to me with some aches and pains and headaches and abdominal pain she was eighty years old she was forced to flee from her city near daraa and i could not figure why she has all of these hurt things then i ask her why are you still in this camp why dont you go back to daraa and then she told me she started to cry and she told me i lost everything my son i lost my home i lost my neighborhood im living here i stuck with my husband and i cannot go back and i figure out that this is a patient who is that the press and what were seeing usually is there so much isolation the symptoms of depression and anxiety many of you stating itself as headache of donald pain and so forth so you have as a physician to try to treat the person behind these aches and figure out whats happening in order to do that you have to understand the culture and the sand the body language and their stand that sometimes pain means headache means that or means p. T. S. D. And so forth. So that i write in. Most of the time they dont have good words to express themselves so they supply some look their symptoms and i do agree with on that but it actually starts by building a relationship with understanding them seeing them as human beings more than refugees they are human beings they are children their families so if you would connect them about on the mentor basic human level then you create a dimension ship and thats whats healing because. The rest of it is whats keeping that in that spirit and that anxiety and that the russian state so if you give them the skills which are going to be important the coping skills and show about bacon copenhagen process the trauma but also if you can get them to keep going and to to lower to the future thats when you actually create this healing and safe environment for them to write in so. They are the survivors of the trauma but there also are the potential vibrance out of this drama and. Dramatic growth posttraumatic that can happen and we do see that in children when they are given the opportunity and we do see that in even adults when they are given the opportunity and the safe space and so on line were getting some suggestions for how best to go about that heres one that our team here thought was interesting because we didnt know it would be possible so this is michael and he says provide televised Counseling Services and thats what im going to throw this over to you because i know you do something similar you actually do speak to refugees who are in camps in lebanon on air and places that are not where you are and you talk to them. As jealous about that how does that work. Exactly because the idea was to to reach out much as we can and to do to take a social support whenever we need it so we we offer our services actually as long as we have to get deputy for a face to face and for our or for any wreckage or migrants here to come for a free counseling and i would and as long as we have the capacity for that we operate we ought to cooperate with the other organizations to pay for our services in order to provide for a Certain Group of people for specific needs with some languages or whatever but it was very meaningful for me and for us as a group of good to good dancers to reach the syrian in lebanon and to reach them in syria which reconnect me personally to or to syria or to lebanon and to see how much it could be a little very strange different between how people the soul is there or here or express their pain or their dignity or whatever and we are part of that through all our platform which was made specially to have confidential counseling online which is so minor dot com and we do that through organizations. That give their awareness and what we do to the people in the camp they got around and we have community mobilized with and from the point where the the client would come and just have an appointment and based on the cultural and male or female approach they would just to choose a counsellor and then on that. Date they will have that appointment they will have the counsellor ready and have as many sessions at the that they need and have the support i would show you one story from twenty fourteen where a little girl had stopped speaking because of the trauma from being involved and being a civilian join the syrian war have a look at this because i want to talk to you guess about results is how much money that is. But a hasnt said a word in over a year shes been silent since her street in damascus was heavily shelled her condition is called selective mutism she points at things to communicate and this is a common condition among syrian children she had was mute for a year she has spoken again after treatment but now suffers from a speech impediment and requires specialized Speech Therapy which her family cannot afford all the low layers of one who she sees a laser she thinks is a sniper if she hears a thump she thinks its a bomb the girl is living in fear. Now you know weve just had a few examples a few families a few refugees but you know so many who really need help where is the only supply or teach for refugees needs in terms of Mental Health care im not a month model i heard because when. The top of it was on the top of the bus so the basic center and the access to Health Care System in rhymes and seeds and. Needs were Clean Water Needs are the priorities for the families or. In the wintertime. As. Norms needs Mental Health issue and i really didnt and they can be a right wing most of the children are still living in this fight or flight or even Training Like this. And we need to get them right from that state and they need a safe space they need to be able to trust us to want to come back to this bird and to get up on the shot and it was in our hands when the never again but if we just have a problem we just. Dont want to talk about the Mental Illness bad ones and the lack of resources and the problem and just want to know its not going to go away on its own i just want to highlight the fact that sometimes solution is there but we dont Pay Attention to it which is schools schools for children is a way of coping and many times children are in the in the specially in the refugee camps do not have access to regular schooling more than two hundred fifty thousand children in society and children in lebanon dont go to school so providing school will give you some level of normalcy and also Training Community leaders on how to address the mental issues training the trainers we have to come with Creative Ideas because there is shortage of Mental Health specialists in syria and jordan and lebanon. Thank you so much founder of made global. Is from the Maya Foundation and athletics is from the. Internationalists a huge social organization. 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