Refugee children have higher rates of depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
Sameer tells Al Jazeera, “Scenes of those things that I witnessed had a very bad effect on me and still I remember it makes me angry.”
According to research conducted on children who are refugees, there are generally more emotional disorders than in non-refugee children.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was 23% (one in four) in refugee children, 16% (one in six), and 14% (one in 7) in depression, according to a study.
Trickey points out that trauma keeps you in a very high state of alert. And I believe that those without refugee status experience a persistent fear of being taken back to where they fled.
Trickey adds that not all children experience trauma in the same way.
Not how big of an event was, but rather what you made of it, which is a more significant risk factor and a predictor of PTSD. You worried, did you? Did you anticipate a death?
And different kinds of children will find frightening things. Some people will actually go through the worst things and appear to be unaffected, and they will do just fine. Some people will appear to be doing well before developing what we might refer to as latent vulnerability. And that’s when they experience difficulties later in life.
Ventevogel tells Al Jazeera that often younger children experience issues with withdrawal because they can’t express their feelings in words, such as when a child withdraws, stops playing with other children, or shows in play that something is wrong because the child acts inappropriately.
Although Ventevogel claims that it’s not diagnostic, it might indicate that something deeper exists.
Trickey relates how a boy he was working with described what he was going through by comparing his brain to a waste paper bin full of “scrunched-up pieces of paper” representing “all the bad things” he had been through during a trauma-focused therapy session.
They fall in front of my eyes as I walk to school, they say. They also fall into my dreams when I lie down and go to sleep,” the boy said. However, we remove them from the trash when I come over to see you and clean them. After that, we carefully read them through, carefully fold them, and then place them back in the recycling bin. However, the neat arrangement of the folded pieces means that I have more room to think about other things because they don’t fall out the top.
Source: Aljazeera
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