February 26 - A Fourth Dimension To Think Sacrifices Made For Your Freedom

This is the truth of why Feb 26 is celebrated inwards Kuwait, non for you lot to learn an extra 24-hour interval of opor-garai but to hollo upwardly those who died for your freedom. Over a chiliad Kuwaiti citizens were killed too about get got never been institute too thence for 1 24-hour interval hollo upwardly individual other than yourselves. I volition brand certain my children know the past times of State of Kuwait too learn them to get got tending of their country.

 

My see goes out to  the families of the martyrs may they residuum inwards peace. If you lot desire to encounter to a greater extent than details of the state of war I would propose visiting the Kuwait Memorial Museum.

Here is an article virtually PTSD inwards State of Kuwait past times Claudia Farkas Al-Rashoud a friend of the menage unit of measurement too a corking lady who cares a lot virtually Kuwait.

Few of those who witnessed the horrendous scenes of devastation later the Iraqi trouble of State of Kuwait would get got believed the solid soil would await too thence skillful in 1 trial to a greater extent than inwards such a relatively brief catamenia of time. Physically, State of Kuwait made a remarkable recovery. What was non directly obvious was the grade of harm done to the brain of many who experienced captivity or torture or witnessed the roughshod acts of the occupying forces. Buildings too installations, it turned out, are much easier to repair than the mental wellness of human beings.

Recent studies get got shown that to a greater extent than than 2 decades later the liberation about xx v per cent of Kuwait's population nonetheless suffers from the debilitating status known every bit Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). According to psychiatrist Dr Abdullah Al Hammadi, PTSD is a long-term affliction from which the people of State of Kuwait volition endure for years to come, every bit create many American veterans of the Vietnam War, too fifty-fifty those of World War II.  Speaking to the Arab Times inwards his purpose at the State of Kuwait Center for Mental Health, Dr Al Hammadi said, "We are next the studies too literature from the U.S.A. too nosotros encounter the same patterns, too thence nosotros know that PTSD is non peculiar to Kuwait. The illness is the same, whether the patient is inwards America, Kuwait, or anywhere else inwards the world. The status is definitely on the ascent worldwide due to the large publish of armed conflicts too every bit natural disasters." (story link)

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