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Ukraine gets new mental health center for soldiers, locals with trauma

Ukraine gets new mental health center for soldiers, locals with trauma

Making his daily rounds, Dr. Oleh Berezyuk admittedly tried his hardest to downplay Feb. 24 as just another day. The psychiatrist and psychotherapist didn’t want to appear somber or overly reflective on the one-year mark of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. He didn’t want to further disrupt the mental states of his patients suffering from PTSD and other stress-related conditions.  He also hadn’t heard any air raid sirens – yet. “Right now, we are not counting them; we used to,” said Berezyuk, the director…

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The mental health first aiders fighting back in Ukraine

The mental health first aiders fighting back in Ukraine

This was the region of skills of Nathalie Robelot-Timtchenko, a psychological health and fitness specialist specialising in expressive arts therapy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who lived in Kyiv from 2014 to 2021. “When [the invasion] transpired, it was all-around 1am, I believe that, on the 24 February for us [in Cambridge], and it was surprising,” claims Robelot-Timtchenko. “It was genuinely tricky to know how to enable, and what would actually be impactful.” Robelot-Timtchenko sent out a contact-to-motion on 25 February…

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