Emily O’Dell: Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Awareness Month in Beirut

While on the surface our mental health awareness work in Lebanon looks like an innovation, it’s more like a reclamation — since the first mental hospitals in the world appeared in the Middle East. Read more: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Education, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health Issues, Lebanon, Beirut, Middle East, High School, History, Eating Disorders, Self-Injury, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Drug Abuse, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Cairo, Baghdad, Advocacy, Morocco, Health Insurance, Migrant Workers, Healthy Living News

While on the surface our mental health awareness work in Lebanon looks like an innovation, it’s more like a reclamation — since the first mental hospitals in the world appeared in the Middle East.

Read more: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Education, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health Issues, Lebanon, Beirut, Middle East, High School, History, Eating Disorders, Self-Injury, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Drug Abuse, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Cairo, Baghdad, Advocacy, Morocco, Health Insurance, Migrant Workers, Healthy Living News

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