How we can bring mental health support to refugees | Essam Daod

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🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The global refugee crisis is a mental health catastrophe, leaving millions in need of psychological support to overcome the traumas of dislocation and conflict. To undo the damage, child psychiatrist and TED Fellow Essam Daod has been working in camps, rescue boats and the shorelines of Greece and the Mediterranean Sea to help refugees (a quarter of which are children) reframe their experiences through short, powerful psychological interventions. "We can all do something to prevent this mental health catastrophe," Daod says. "We need to acknowledge that first aid is not just needed for the body, but it has also to include the mind, the soul."

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0:32.6	This TED Talk features mental health specialist Esam Dawood,
0:36.9	recorded live at TED-2018.
0:41.1	For the last two and a half years, I am one of the few, if not the only child psychiatrist,
0:47.4	operating in refugee camps, shorelines, and rescue boats in Greece and the Mediterranean Sea.
0:53.4	And I can say with a great confidence that we are witnessing a mental health catastrophe
0:59.0	that will affect most of us and it will change our world.
1:03.0	I live in Haifa, but nowadays I spend most of my time abroad.
1:08.0	During my time with the Greek island of Lesbos, and in the rescue boats in
1:12.5	the Mediterranean, thousands of refugee boats arrived to the shoreline, crowded with more than
1:17.9	1.5 million refugees, fourth of them are children, fleeing war and hardship. Each boat carries
1:26.0	different sufferings and traumas from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and
1:30.1	different countries in Africa. In the last three years alone, more than 12,000 refugees lost
1:36.7	their lives, and hundreds of thousands lost their souls and their mental health
1:41.2	due to this cruel and traumatic experience.
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