mental health

Kashmir: Promoting mental health awareness and breaking stigma in the community

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Doctors Without Borders India/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been actively conducting a series of mental health awareness sessions across Srinagar, Kashmir, aiming to promote understanding, break stigma, and provide practical tools for mental well-being. Mental health awarness session at Government Women’s College, Nawa Kadal At Government Women’s College, Nawa Kadal, Clinical Psychologist Farhana Yaseen led … Read more

World Mental Health Day 2025: Breaking Silence

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We understand that survival is about more than just treating physical injuries. For people who have endured the hardships of humanitarian crises, the psychological wounds often remain long after the visible scars have healed. Since 2001, MSF has been providing free, high-quality counseling services to people in Kashmir, India. In addition to providing care, MSF … Read more

Eswatini: Stigma-free care in a country ranked second in global suicide rates

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A country that rarely makes global headlines, Eswatini faces an urgent but often unseen ongoing challenge. In a context where there are unmet medical needs in areas such as sexual and reproductive health, sexual violence care and the burden of diseases like HIV, the country was recently placed second in the global suicide rankings by … Read more

South Sudan’s Hidden Crisis: Samat’s Mental Health Recovery Journey

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South Sudan faces a profound but often invisible mental health crisis. Decades of conflict, displacement, and poverty have left deep psychological scars. Yet, with only a handful of trained professionals and virtually no specialized facilities, individuals in crisis are often stigmatized, neglected, or treated as criminals. 33-year-old Samat Nyuk’s experience reflects the reality faced by … Read more

Behind the armor: Men’s well-being on World Mental Health Day

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He is a tired man who’s expected to be strong, always – to endure and stand firm. He has learned that fatigue, tears, and fear are not for him, that he must not waver no matter how heavy the burden. Outwardly he looks steady; inside, he carries hidden wounds. In a moment of silence, on … Read more

World Mental Health Day: MSF work in Italy with migrant minors

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Agrigento, Italy- Since July 2024, the MSF team working on the ‘People on the Move’ project has been supporting migrant minors in Agrigento, in Italian island Sicily which receives the majority of people crossing the deadly route of the Mediterranean Sea. The project is being carried out in collaboration with local health authorities. Many of … Read more

Life after conflict: Why mental health care in Tigray cannot wait

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Tigray, Ethiopia – 7 October 2025 – Three years after the cessation of hostilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, communities continue to face the devastating consequences of violence, displacement, and the collapse of essential services. In this region in the country’s north, more than 760,000 people remain displaced; many are living in overcrowded camps … Read more

Nigeria: Addressing mental health and malnutrition together

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Every year, millions of children around the world suffer from malnutrition—a crisis that is all too visible in their frail bodies and tired eyes. But what is often less visible, yet just as devastating, are the psychological wounds that malnutrition inflicts on both children and their caregivers. Over the years, the upward surge in children … Read more

The Silent Queue in Somalia

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By Retsat Dazang: Mental Health Activity Manager, MSF Somalia The woman didn’t come to talk about her mind. She came because she hadn’t slept in weeks and her chest felt tight, “like a hand sitting here.” In our clinics across Somalia, this is the first sentence we hear most often, not “I need mental health … Read more

The Healing Conversations: A Counsellor’s Journey Through Kashmir’s Mental Health Landscape

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The first rays of dawn break over the mountains as Naseer Mir Ahmad begin his morning. A brisk two-kilometer walk through his neighborhood, the crisp air filling his lungs as he mentally prepares for the day ahead. For Naseer, a counsellor educator with Doctors Without Borders India/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kashmir, each day … Read more