Nauru: PTSD and depression have reached epidemic proportions

Nauru: PTSD and depression have reached epidemic proportions

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1884842 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11731318 On Nauru, the report says: “It appears that post traumatic distress disorder (PTSD) and depression have reached epidemic proportions . . . UNHCR anticipates that mental illness, distress and suicide will continue to escalate in the immediate and foreseeable future.” The refugees are not only being treated cruelly and inhumanely by…