Julia Bohm

Mental Health Seeking Answers

In 2016, 1.2 migrants sought asylum in the EU. 50% of adult exiled migrants into Germany experience some type of mental illness. For 20% of those adults that mental illness is PTSD. In a Dutch study, only 9% of asylum seekers sought treatment from a mental health institution.

Today there is no drinking water

today there is no light today

there is only kerosene the hmm

hmm hum of a generator pulsing

deep into the exhausted darkness

you write the word shame–

It is possible to live without

memory Nietzsche said but

is it possible to live with it?

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Faizullah, Tarfia. Seam. Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.

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