Title:  Aid workers suffer mental health crisis

 

Source: CNN

 

Summary: Aid workers witness many horrific things. The are the first responders and some of the last to leave. They get kidnapped and killed. They become traumatized. Yet they do not have much support when it comes to handling the mental damage done after such events.

 

Reaction: I believe this is a big problem. How can we expect to fully help other people when we can’t even help those who have to help those in need? Aid workers are traumatized by what they see and experience- being the first there and the last to leave-yet they have no way of healing themselves. They commonly brush it off, thinking it not a serious problem, but it is. They don’t get much time off, buzzing from assignment to assignment with little-to-no break between. They commonly get stuck in other places due to the environment they are put in and people with which they are staying. They have few ways of getting help for their mental health, which is damaged because of their job in the first place. As long as these problems remain, then Aid workers are not able to fully help others.