For over three decades, Kashmiris have been living through multiple crises.
Violent armed insurrections, brutal counterinsurgency, unparalleled militarization and securitization, and unfulfilled demands for self-determination have fueled depression and drugs in the disputed region, experts say.
The conflict has created two lost generations: the teenagers of 1989 who saw their childhoods collapse into warfare, and the teenagers of today who never had a childhood at all. in 2019 in a move that the Indian government sold as being necessary for normalcy to return. Still, the invisible scars of Kashmir’s unending conflict are evident in the psychiatric sections of multiple hospitals where, on a routine day, hundreds seek help for mental illnesses and drug addictions.
The mental health care infrastructure has expanded from mere four psychiatrists and one main mental health care clinic in Srinagar in early 2000, to about 17 government-run clinics operated by over six-dozen professionals across the region today. But the mental health network is still overwhelmed.
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