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Where we work, we may see people with a mental illness or confronting distressing situations, such as violence, loss or displacement.

Mental health support can be crucial to help people cope. People seek help for many reasons - the agonising loss of a child in an earthquake, the trauma of violence, or surviving a dangerous journey. People may feel stressed or anxious due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Our teams can provide mental health and psychosocial support through group sessions or individual consultations. MSF’s mental health care aims primarily to reduce people’s symptoms and improve their ability to manage a difficult time so they can get on with their lives.

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Mental health

Quick facts about mental health

3 Tips for Managing Stress & Anxiety During COVID-19 - ENG
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3 tips for managing stress and anxiety during COVID-19

Coronavirus COVID-19: three tips to manage stress

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll on people all over the world, including on their mental health. MSF teams are providing psychological support to people during the pandemic in countries worldwide. Here are three tips to help you manage any stress or anxiety you may be feeling.

 
Providing mental health in Wadi Khaled
Mental health

Tackling stigma one patient at a time in Lebanon

Project Update 22 Jul 2019
 
NAURU - MSF forced to end its Mental Health activities
Nauru

Nauru blocks new remote mental health service with telemedicine ban

Press Release 1 Mar 2019
 
Support to demobilized children in South Sudan – GIFs
South Sudan

“It is very gratifying to see former child soldiers being integrated back into their communities”

Interview 26 Feb 2019
 
NAURU - MSF forced to end its Mental Health activities
Nauru

Nauru | Concerns over reopening Christmas Island detention centre

MSF Australia. 21 Feb 2019
 
NAURU - MSF forced to end its Mental Health activities
Nauru

MSF launches remote mental health service for former patients in distress

Press Release 7 Feb 2019
 
Nduta Refugee Camp, Tanzania
Mental health

Displaced and distressed: people’s mental health in East Africa

Project Update 22 Jan 2019
 
Shatila Camp Illustrations
Lebanon

“To see one smile on a broken face is enough to know that this work is worthwhile”

Project Update 15 Jan 2019
 
Armenia

Children in difficult situations: 30 years of MSF in Armenia

Project Update 20 Dec 2018
 
Many people in the Platinum belt have family members working in the mines. Houses are often built close together in smaller, spread out neighbourhoods.
South Africa

Critical gaps in mental healthcare for survivors of sexual violence

Report 17 Dec 2018
fieldresearch.msf.org

We produce important research based on our field experience. So far, we have published articles in over 100 peer-reviewed journals. These articles have often changed clinical practice and have been used for humanitarian advocacy. Read all our Mental Health-related articles on our dedicated Field Research website.

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East Ukraine- October 2017
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