Mental patients at the shrine Mia Ali Baba in Jajalabad, Afghanistan. Abandoned, chained, forgotten… Mental patients in Afghanistan faces the lack of resources to care for them while the political instability and the increase of drug addicts shake the wall of the reason.
Abandoned, chained, forgotten… Mental patients in Afghanistan faces the lack of resources to care for them while the political instability and the increase of drug addicts shake the wall of the reason. Ignorance and stigma regard mental disorders.
War and drugs have a catastrophic effect on the health. Death as a result of wars is simply the "tip of the iceberg". More than tree decades of conflict have led to widespread human suffering and population displacement in Afghanistan. The effects of war include long-term physical, psychological harm and drug addictions. While Afghanistan mental health treatment has improved in cities, many rural residents still opt to send the ill to shrines, where they may be chained and poorly fed. Shrines offer draconian approach to mental illness. Mental patients and drug addicts face the consequences of decades of war.