“My story of mental health challenges begins when my father forced me to marry a man who did not understand anything about life,” Nasima shares.
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This year, for the first time ever, the people of Kandahar and Farah provinces – which have a combined population of over two million – will have access to two psychiatrists, who recently graduated from IAM’s Mental Health Programme in 2020. These psychiatrists will begin providing mental health services in hospitals and other units, which means people with mental health problems in these areas will have access to the help they need.
Seven years of depression. Four months of counselling. A family transformed. “Now, our life is ten times better than before” Sabera* would beat her children and pull out chunks of […]
Each year 3,000 Afghans attempt to take their own lives. Herat province accounts for more than half of all cases nationwide, according to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). […]
International Assistance Mission (IAM) is helping the Afghan government in the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19 by providing services, raising awareness and informing people how to prevent the […]
Sadiqa struggled to best help her son, Aziz, who has a psychosocial disability. It wasn’t until they came to IAM’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Centre that they started seeing some real changes. Read more about their story, and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Project, here.
A key part of our mental health programme is to increase awareness about mental health disorders and dispel some of the stigmas that surround mental health disorders. This year, we were able to produce five short videos to address stigmas and educate people about mental health disorders. The first video aims to fight the stigma that people with mental health disorders cannot hold jobs. Check out the video here!
A Mental Health Film Part of IAM’s work in Mental Health is raising awareness about mental health issues. This spring, our mental health advocacy team produced two new documentaries so […]
After months of worrying about her daughter, a concerned mother brought her to the Mental Health Training Centre, Herat (MHTC-H). The clinic doctor remembers that she was very thin and […]