Yesterday I visited a lecture by  Dr. Amal Alachkar about the long-term consequences of the war in Syria.

First: This woman is absolutely impressive! Her story, her view on things and her researches! But step by step.

First she gave a short introduction to the political situation before the war in Syria and why people had the need to stand up against the government and why she, herself wanted to change something. Her main reason was actually that the government don’t give people human rights. That’s why she thought it is important to stand up for those rights, well knowing that the consequences are life-threatening. And obviously she was in danger, this is why she doesn’t live in Syria anymore.

With her research, which based on experiments with animals, she proofed that long-term consequences for pregnant women and their children are immense. Children of Women who suffer from malnutrition because of war have a higher risk of having serious psychological issues such as schizophrenia.

Dr. Alachkar pointed out that those symptoms could be handled through medicaments. But a medicament can face the symptoms. But to really heal people from PTBS or other diseases it is important to work on the actual reason. So I think that here a psychological therapy is really important.    Because of the huge numbers of refugees and the different languages I really ask myself how the world-community can handle that. Even if there were enough Psychologist, different languages wouldn’t allow a therapy…I need to do better in my arabic-studies :/