GIF (INT) - World Mental Health Day - Treating Detainees in Tripoli

For World Mental Health Day 2019, a GIF with photos of life in Libya detention centers and a quote from Dr. Heike Zander, MSF Mental Health Activity Manager in Tripoli.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF288402

Date taken / Date Recorded 10/10/2019 12:00 AM

Country Libya

Commissioning section MSF-NETHERLANDS

Photographer / videographer / producer Jérôme Tubiana

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Maximum Size 2048px × 1365px 8.11 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Providing mental health care for people in detention centers in Tripoli is a challenging, ongoing process. Not only do people arrive bearing trauma from their journeys and the situations in their home countries, but the daily reality of detention causes new suffering. Many also grieve the death of friends and family on the journey to Libya or on previous attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

Their trauma manifests in different ways - from constant worrying, insomnia, and anxiety, all the way to severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress, or suicidal thoughts. While detention centers do not offer a safe place for them to process what they’ve endured, MSF provides coping strategies to help detainees understand and manage their mental health symptoms.
In a place where they have no control over their lives, it is powerful for detainees to understand that their symptoms are a normal reaction to a very abnormal situation.
- Dr. Heike Zander, MSF Mental Health Activity Manager in Tripoli

Special instructions Credits:
Video production and editing by Negin Allamehzadeh.

Pictures by:
Jérôme Tubiana/MSF
Maud Veith/SOS Mediterranée
Sara Creta/MSF
All pictures are available on the MDB