Médecins Sans Frontières - (INTER) Alina - MSF discharged patient from Mariupol

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB197642

Date taken / Date Recorded 27/05/2024 1:48 PM

Country Ukraine

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Fanny Hostettler

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Duration 1m32s

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Additional Information / Shotlist Alina Roshevska - MSF discharged patient from Mariupol
When I told my parents I wanted
to see a psychologist, they said: ‘Are you crazy? Psychologists can't do much’. But time goes by and you realise that these are just stereotypes.
TXT
Alina fled her home town, Mariupol, after spending 20 days in her basement under constant shelling.
ITW Alina
It was a very difficult ordeal. I started having panic attacks. I couldn't get on the bus, I couldn’t even go out.
TXT
Alina has been living in Vinnytsia since April 2023, and has joined the I’Mariupol organisation, which provides psychosocial support to war displaced people.
MSF teams run creative and artistic workshops to raise awareness towards mental health and identify people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
In September 2023, MSF opened a centre in Vinnytsia, offering psychological consultations to patients suffering from PTSD.
Alina
My boyfriend and I went to them (Médecins Sans Frontières) because he was very unwell after his father died at the front, and I couldn't stand it either.
I had a lot of therapy sessions. It was difficult. It didn't happen overnight. It's a long and complicated process. Three months after I started treatment, I didn’t have any more panic attacks, they went away, at last I learned to control them and deal with them.
TXT
Today, Alina has a job, she has rebuilt a group of friends and is looking to the future with more confidence.