HI’s mental health team has identified various negative coping strategies that people are using, such as drinking more alcohol and taking medicines without a prescription; becoming cut off from others or having a negative attitude to life, and transferring negative emotions to friends and family.
What living in a war zone does to your brain – and how you can help Now an NHS psychologist, BBC journalist Dr Sian Williams describes how Humanity & Inclusion helps those scarred by the war in Ukraine.
HI is leading efforts in eastern Ukraine to provide crucial mental health support to the most vulnerable – older people, those with disabilities, the displaced and people in the most geographically isolated communities.
The closest many of us came was perhaps during the Covid pandemic, when Boris Johnson suggested he was leading a wartime government and in a special broadcast, the late Queen Elizabeth II praised the “national spirit” and evoked the Second World War, saying: “We will meet again.”.
Imagine waking up every day not knowing if your home will still be standing by nightfall or whether the people you love will return – the anxiety of what might happen keeping you in a constant state of high alert.
