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'Like Xanax': In Lebanon, crisis comedy combats trauma

Entertainment 5 years ago

'Like Xanax': In Lebanon, crisis comedy combats trauma

Lebanese comedians are bringing relief and defying taboos with jokes about dating, partying during the pandemic -- and how even drug dealers are considering leaving the crisis-hit country.

Beirut blast trauma adds new wounds to old scars

World 5 years ago

Beirut blast trauma adds new wounds to old scars

The earth-shaking explosion killed 171 people and wounded more than 6,000, a sickening blow to a country already in crisis.Almost every generation in Lebanon has experienced some kind of conflict, whether the 1975-1990 civil war or the 2006 hostilities with Israel.

'I don't want to die': Blast traumatizes Beirut children

World 5 years ago

'I don't want to die': Blast traumatizes Beirut children

The blast a week ago that temporarily displaced 100,000 children, according to a UN estimate, was so mighty it had the magnitude of an earthquake.The mental shock it caused among Beirut's youngest was just as powerful.

`I'm never going to be the same': Medics grapple with mental trauma on COVID-19 front line

Health 5 years ago

`I'm never going to be the same': Medics grapple with mental trauma on COVID-19 front line

The unrelenting horror of COVID-19 has exacted a toll on healthcare workers who have seen patient after patient succumb to a disease that has killed more than 75,000 people in the United States alone in little more than two months.

Trauma therapy still needed for Sunda Strait natural disaster survivors

National 6 years ago

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Trauma therapy still needed for Sunda Strait natural disaster survivors

Therapy encourages tsunami survivors to open up and deal with the trauma caused by the tsunami in December last year.

'27 Steps of May’ to hit local cinemas on April 27

Entertainment 6 years ago

'27 Steps of May’ to hit local cinemas on April 27

Directed by Ravi Bharwani, the film explores the struggles people face when dealing with trauma.

Social Affairs Ministry deploys counsellors to Papua after conflict

National 7 years ago

Social Affairs Ministry deploys counsellors to Papua after conflict

The ministry is currently providing counseling to 210 children at the Sinakma Church in Jayawijaya regency, Papua.

After Lombok's earthquakes: Now phantom quakes?

Opinion 7 years ago

After Lombok's earthquakes: Now phantom quakes?

Anyone caught up in the disaster may also experience the uncanny sensation of “phantom quakes”.

US centers force migrant children to take drugs -lawsuit

World 7 years ago

US centers force migrant children to take drugs -lawsuit

Immigrant children are being routinely and forcibly given a range of psychotropic drugs at U.S. government-funded youth shelters to manage their trauma after being detained and in some cases separated from parents, according to a lawsuit.

US says official's brain injury in China matches Cuba problem

World 7 years ago

US says official's brain injury in China matches Cuba problem

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the brain injury sustained by an American official in China was "very similar" to those that affected US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba.

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