Psychosocial situation after the 44-day war

Baku/07.05.21/Turan: The population of the front-line zone needs psychosocial rehabilitation after the 44-day war, psychotherapist Azad Isazadeh tells about this in the “Difficult question" program of Turan News Agency. After the Second Karabakh war a group of 35 psychotherapists, psychologists and sociologists organized such work after the signing of a trilateral agreement on November 10.

The first group visited Ganja and assisted primarily to children and women. Then psychologists expanded their activities to Aghdam, Terter and Agjabedi regions. A mobile brigade of 5-9 people operated in each district.

In Ganja, not only the residents affected by the missile strike, but the adjacent zone were in a state of stress. Psychological assistance was provided to approximately 300 children and 50 women (mothers).

According to Isazade, there is a certain difference between the stress of the residents of Ganja and the stress of the residents of the front-line villages of Agdam, Terter and Agjabedi regions.

“We conditionally called these people “children born during the war”. They became refugees during the First Karabakh War, who grew up and made families.

They survived the 4-day war of April 2016; and they are used to sporadic gunfights, sniper duels. In a word, these children were formed and raised during the war. We dealt with chronic stress, and in this state, older people and their children. And yet, the stress experienced by the Ganja residents, of course, was more acute,” he stressed.

There are many conscripts and those, who voluntarily took part in the 44-day war. Therefore, practically in each of these villages there are dead (at least one) and 10-15 wounded. In a word, this population took an active part in the war, and this could not but affect their psychological state.

People have become more aggressive. Suffice it to say, that children often experience sleep disturbances, anxiety, enuresis, aggression, stuttering, etc.

“There we witnessed all the neurotic symptoms. Sometimes it was necessary to provide them with psychiatric assistance,” Isazade said.

He drew attention to the fact that despite the absence of statistics, one can safely speak about the growth of domestic violence in the families of war participants, especially among those who received a shell shock. -0-