“Sometimes we are talking to them and trying to comfort them, but inside our hearts we feel pain because we also face the same problems,” she said. “We also have lost people, but we must pretend to be another person, to hide our real feelings and our real suffering.”The perspective is so much broader and the chaos far more extreme but the fictions of "its okay" ring so hallow and don't really help no matter your geographic location or circumstances. Maybe thats why people who have been in similar situations are more effective than those who haven't.
I mean but go figure. The average Iraqi would probably get a short term stint in the hospital here in the U.S. just from the chaos and death and destruction they have seen in the past 5 years.
go read the rest: War Takes Toll on Baghdad Psychiatric Hospital
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