Afghanistan faces a worsening mental health crisis amid a clampdown on women's freedoms and rights.
"I just want someone to hear my voice. I'm in pain, and I'm not the only one," an Afghan university student tells us, blinking back tears.
"When you read the news, you read about the hunger crisis, but no-one talks about mental health. It's like people are being slowly poisoned. Day by day, they're losing hope."Dr Amal tells us she received 170 calls for help within two days of the announcement that women would be banned from universities. Now she gets roughly seven to 10 new calls for help every day. Most of her patients are girls and young women.
Nadir is one of them. He tells us his daughter took her own life on the first day of the new school term in March this year. The father of a woman in her early twenties told us what he believes was the reason behind his daughter's suicide."But it was after she wasn't allowed to sit for the university entrance exam, that's when she lost all hope. It's an unbearable loss," he adds, then pauses abruptly and begins to cry.
"The situation is catastrophic and critical. But we are not allowed to record or access suicide statistics. I can definitely say though that you can barely find someone who is not suffering from a mental illness," says Dr Shaan, a psychiatrist who works at a public hospital in Afghanistan. In the absence of data, we've tried to assess the scale of the crisis through conversations with dozens of people.
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