A mobile medical clinic offering mental health care has sought to help Palestinians dealing with war-related anxiety, especially vulnerable communities, such as Bedouin tribes.
Psychologist Redah Hussin leads an art therapy class for Bedouin children. Between an uptick in settler violence and the war in Gaza, Palestinians are dealing with multiple mental health stressors.
The war is not in the occupied West Bank, but even here, perched in these serene hills among their sheep under what looks like an endlessly open sky, the conflict in Gaza feels close. "He's been talking to his grandfather about the war. 'Look, look,' he says, 'children and soldiers. They are killing children,'" says Khitam, as she bounces one-and-a-half year old Aya on her right hip.A Bedouin boy passes a mobile medical clinic run by the British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Redah Hussin, a psychologist with MAP, says she's seen an increase in the need for mental health care since the start of the war. She says she's seeing a lot of"stress, panic and worry" in everyone, including in children, who don't know how to speak about it. Nahidah Dashd, a physician with the mobile clinic, says she has noticed an uptick in stress-related ailments from adults too."I will hear 'my back hurts,' or 'my neck is suddenly so sore,' but after testing them and not finding anything physical wrong with them, I ask them about their mental health and I hear that they are in fact very anxious, or very stressed out," she says.The children's mothers sit at the entrance of the tent, looking on. They too are anxious.
That number probably doesn't represent the full extent of the need for therapy, according to Fleifel, who says cultural stigmas about seeking help and uncertainty that it would even work means the demand is probably even greater.
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