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Stress Corroding Mental Health of Iraqis
Compounding the problem, says Dr. Shalan al-Abbudi, director of Baghdad's Ibn-Rushd psychiatric hospital, is the flight from the country of psychiatrists -- those best equipped to help shell-shocked Iraqis deal with their mental demons.
"A year ago I had 14 psychiatrists, today I have four. They are all leaving Iraq," Abbudi told AFP in his small office in the hospital, crowded daily with outpatients desperate for relief from images of horror that haunt them often in the day, always at night.
He and his ever diminishing team make sure every person who turns up at his hospital in Baghdad's central Karrada district gets help.
"We get 80 to 100 patients a day," said the doctor, as the queue outside his door grew ever longer -- many women, fewer men, a handful of children.
"When they arrive here, they are really desperate. They have first been to their local imams and spiritual guides, some even to charlatans. They come here as a last resort," said the doctor.
All are suffering from at least one of the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as anxiety, depression, irritability, anger, loss of appetite, inability to sleep.
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