Kashmir’s Unprecedented Mental Health Crisis

86 percent of those surveyed had been exposed to crossfire and 83 percent to round-up raids.

Raisa Nastukova
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5 min readSep 11, 2020

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“What happens when an entire society is suffering from PTSD?” asked Beyond the Breaking Point, published in 2009 by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma when addressing the mental health situation in Kashmir.

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Raisa Nastukova
ILLUMINATION

Freelance journalist focused on stories of both Kashmir culture and society as well as the rising tide of climate change.